Interpelacion historiográfica al legado clásico

Este trabajo, «Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica», aspira a replantear una serie de problemas y contradicciones que se han suscitado en los estudios sobre la realidad americana. Mientras que las historias del arte tradicionales suelen ceñirse al estudio de las obras singulares, emergentes de un contexto cultural más amplio el cual se identifica justamente por la excepción, el autor ha preferido introducir, junto al sistema de desarrollo cronológico y geográfico, una aproximación adicional de carácter tipológico-funcional que permite abordar temas marginales como la...

The book Did Someone Say Participate? has been published by the MIT Press in the year 2006. dpr-barcelona going on with it's philosophy to share interesting contents with our readers and having noticed that this amazing book talks about the most actual and contemporary topics (as it is participation and social projects with personal involvement, looking for a chance to make radical change in today’s cities) has decided to translate and distribute the book all over the world, especially in Latin America and Spain, to bring all Spanish-speakers the chance to get to know all the great projects ...

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

Vicente Galicia (b. Spain 1901, arrived in Colombia in 1926- d. Barranquilla 1992) was a Basque architect and Claretian missionary-priest who left behind an important architectural legacy in Colombia, particularly in the Department of Choc and the cities of Barranquilla and Medellín. Architect and urban historian González Escobar presents a brief biography highlighting the architectural accomplishments of this celebrated architect-constructer who created his most prominent works between 1942 and 1945.