Historia de la arquitectura en la Argentina

Esta tesis presenta un instrumento para la gestión de la Renovación Urbana, en la que se articulan los componentes de enfoque al ciudadano y enfoque por procesos. La elaboración conceptual que la fundamenta, entiende la renovación como el mejoramiento, reconstrucción o sustitución del espacio edificado, mediante componentes técnicos, sociales, económicos, ambientales, culturales, organizacionales, normativos y políticos, digiridos a satisfacer necesidades ciduadanas y al mejoramiento integral del territorio. La Herramienta se dedica al análisis del Proyecto Tercer Milenio de...

A man (evidently the architect Mies van der Rohe), stands in a room in a glass-and-steel building. This is the scene that author Ricardo Daza uses for his investigation into the man, the room, the building, and what the architect is looking at. Looking for Mies unfolds like a detective novel, complete with deductions, revelations, and conclusions about the architect's work. This fascinating study of van der Rohe is illustrated with 160 duotones.

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...

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.