Gestión de Grandes Proyectos Urbanos en espacios metropolizados

"Comprehensive study by a group of scholars explores the development, expansion, and economic impact of haciendas in the state of Morelos, especially those connected to the sugar industry. Illustrated with contemporary color photographs, 19th- and early-20th-century photographs, and maps. Also includes much archival data"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Torres de Marco Fidel Suarez: Indagaciones compositivas y proyectuales, surge en primera instancia gracias al interés que compartimos como autores por las implicaciones del Movimiento Moderno en las ciudades latinoamericanas (en especial Medellín), y por las respuestas domésticas que este brindó a la capital antioqueña en una época económicamente álgida, con acontecimientos importantes de industrialización y grandes problemas de densificación urbana. Sería entonces la arquitectura moderna, mediante obras que han perdurado en el tiempo, como iconos y símbolos de esa modernidad que...

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...

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...