Hannes Meyer

This volume displays several subjects in relation to the house projected and constructed by O'Gorman for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in San Angel, that are considered first of the funcionalist style for O'Gorman. The Rivera and Kahlo house is detailed as to theory, plan and use. It also includes the way in which Diego and Frida lived in those spaces.

Análisis de la arquitectura militar de la ciudad de Sevilla, a través del estudio de cuarenta y dos edificios que en algún momento tuvieron un uso militar, ya fuera industrial, de almacenamiento, administrativo, hospitalario o residencial. Se trata de forma singular el Cuartel de la Puerta de la Carne, primer edificio diseñado y construido expresamente para uso residencial de la tropa, considerado como modelo de la arquitectura militar, incluso por sus coetáenos. En la actualidad es la sede administrativa de la Diputación Provincial de Sevilla.

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

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...