Interpelacion historiográfica al legado clásico

A panoramic view of representative projects of contemporary architecture in Mexico from 2007-2008. The selection consists of 78 completed projects been selected that reflect the tendencies in architecture for private housing, public complexes, commercial, business and industrial developments. The features stand out in this third in the series: new teams, previously unrepresented, academic and hotels begin to appear and more small, experimental buildings. Some of the architects and collectives include: LCM, Fernando Romero with FRENTE, Juan Pablo Maza, Alberto Kalach, Isaac Broid Zajman, MAS...

No es sencillo interpretar las profundas alteraciones sufridas en la Arquitectura en las últimas décadas y experimentadas anteriormente en el Arte. Este libro explica el origen y desarrollo de nuevas formas y espacios surgidos en estas disciplinas desde la influencia de la Ciencia y la Geometría. Por un lado, se describe la superación conceptual del espacio tradicional (euclídeo tridimensional) por el hiperespacio y el espacio-tiempo de la Relatividad. Por otra parte, se explica la génesis y desarrollo de formas inéditas, modelizadas en las "nuevas" geometrías no euclídeas, aunque...

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...