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Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

The book Did Someone Say Participate? has been published by the MIT Press in the year 2006. dpr-barcelona going on with it's philosophy to share interesting contents with our readers and having noticed that this amazing book talks about the most actual and contemporary topics (as it is participation and social projects with personal involvement, looking for a chance to make radical change in today’s cities) has decided to translate and distribute the book all over the world, especially in Latin America and Spain, to bring all Spanish-speakers the chance to get to know all the great projects ...

A study by the founder of the Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad del Bío-Bío. The first part is a history from pre-Columbian times to 1973, omitting the long colonial period. The second part considers the evolution of urbanism in Chile and includes a chronology of national and international architectural events and several annexes.

Esta obra elabora una visión de la Arquitectura del mundo antiguo occidental desde un enfoque específico: el estudio de los diferentes modelos de edificios que surgen como respuesta al desarrollo de los primeros grandes estados. El análisis y la evolución de estas edificaciones, su validez como espacio destinado a cumplir delimitadas funciones o su incapacidad para ello y, por tanto, su reducida implantación son aspectos a los que esta obra presta especial atención, sin olvidar las diferentes tipologías de ciudad, en las que estos modelos aparecen, tan novedades, creativas y...