Frecquencias, frequencies

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.

To know the work of art in its historical context we can understand and explain its meaning, the symbols involved, the author's intention and the reasons that allowed its creation. In this sense, the book seeks to recognize the various manifestations of art in its historical perspective. The book comprises ten original works, that try to discern the artistic creations since Pre-Hispanic times, in the Viceroyalty, up to the current period, and where visual arts, drama and music are also involved. "This book emerges as a need to spread the texts on art carried out by professors and students of...

Oigame: ¿Qué es eso de Sesiones de Crítica de Arquitectura? Nada importante, no se asuste. Un grupo de arquitectos nos reunimos para charlar sobre temas de arquitectura...Ya nos damos cuenta de nuestras limitaciones, y no pretendemos dogmatizar. Pero a los arquitectos españoles quizá les puedan interesar estas sencillas opiniones de algunos de sus compañeros. No hay que impresionarse por la palabra impresa, que no porque esté impresa adquiere en este caso mayor trascendencia: se imprimen estas palabras en tanto que son portadoras de ideas, no con carácter de valor notarial. En 1950...

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...