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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...

El territorio, el hábitat y la vivienda se entienden como manifestaciones espaciales, en escalas diferenciadas, de valores culturales que implican concepciones y prácticas específicas en un contexto sociocultural y económico determinado. Conformado por tres partes que abordan la vivienda autóctona, la vivienda tradicional y la construcción cultural de la ciudad actual en Colombia, este libro reúne una serie de textos que recogen resultados de investigaciones sobre la vivienda urbana y rural, los cuales trascienden la descripción de los aspectos morfológicos, estéticos, simbólicos o ...

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...

This the third book of the series prepared to spread and promote Mexican residential architecture, a style that is more and more pure and bright. Mexican residential architecture has succeeded in integrating proportion, functionality, context and materials for the pleasure of the persons who create or live in these homes.