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This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

''El edificio del Departamento de Salubridad, sede de la actual Secretaría de Salud, es una obra arquitectónica que data de 1929. Inaugurada el 20 de noviembre de ese año y realizada por el gran arquitecto Carlos Obregón Santacilia (también autor, entre muchos otros, del Banco de México y el monumento a la Revolución), esta pieza es fruto de la Revolución mexicana y síntesis del anhelo de los artistas nacionales por crear una arquitectura mexicana moderna. La construcción combina un estilo lineal sobrio con adornos en art decó y obra plástica (murales, relieves, esculturas) de...

7 papers presented at the simposium "Arquitectura y Percepción" in 2005. The emphasis was on architecture of the 1960's and 1970's.