Estructuras Laminares en la Arquitectura Colombiana (1945-1970)

Una de las causas de la crítica situación sanitaria en las áreas metropolitanas de América Latina durante la pandemia de COVID-19 fue el déficit en la provisión de servicios urbanos básicos como agua, saneamiento, transporte y energía. En este volumen se analizan, mediante enfoques multidisciplinarios, algunos problemas socioambientales y factores concurrentes que explican esa situación. En distintos artículos se pone el foco en políticas públicas inconclusas o, con mayor frecuencia, ineficientes en distintas localizaciones de la RMBA, Argentina, y el AMCO, Colombia: el...

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.

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

The recent boom of Chilean architecture of international and national recognition has been widely documented and promoted in mass publications, books and specialized journals. This book is a collaboration project between different architects that contribute to this process with critical texts of the historic contexts and problems faced by the urban-architectural practice in Chile, highlighting how the political-cultural events of the last 3 decades has influenced local construction. With texts by Jorge Fco. Liernur, Fernando Pérez, Federico Deambrosis and Pedro Bannen, and a prologue by...