Historia de la arquitectura en la Argentina

The work of the Colombian architect Harold Martínez Espinal, shows a way to purposeful way of thinking the architecture in the suburbs. This book makes a journey from his first works in the 1960's and 1970's, determined by the influence of modern architecture, until the beginning of the second millennium where his thought continues.

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.

De pronto, la ciudad por antonomasia del desierto, Las Vegas, cumple cien años. Una existencia longeva, sin duda, para un non-place que brotó casi accidentalmente en unos parajes tan inhóspitos y vacíos como eran los altiplanos de Nevada. Tras una gestación no muy distinta en avatares a la de cualquier otra town del lejano y salvaje Oeste, experimentó una agitada y prolongada adolescencia, hasta que durante los años sesenta del siglo pasado alcanzó una mayoría de edad urdida en las trastiendas de los centros más acendrados del Mob, ambientada en los ruidos cansinos de las ruletas y...

A new generation of Dutch architecture is represented by the innovative works profiled here. This report on the work of Amsterdam-based partners Felix Claus and Kees Kaan focuses on their numerous projects designed for public and private clients between 1988 and 1996. Firmly rooted in the Dutch tradition, yet highly tuned to new cultural currents, their contribution to design in Holland, both as architects and teachers, is significant.