La impronta del ladrillo

Este libro se aventura a discutir algunos de los complejos desafíos que resultan clave para que el transporte público contribuya a la sustentabilidad urbana. Para enfrentarlos no existe “bala de plata”, sino que es necesario conjugar sinérgicamente un conjunto deherramientas gráficas y comunicacionales.

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

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.

A pesar de su crisis, sería interesante rediscutir sus postulados para extraer conceptos aplicables hoy, fundamentalmente a la concepción de la ciudad como un todo. Claro que todos estos conceptos, el de la vivienda mínima y la ciudad moderna, fundantes del denominado movimiento moderno en arquitectura, que se basaban en una drástica ruptura con la historia, es decir con el atraso, se materializaban a través de una nueva concepción.