Landa García Landa Arquitectos, Monterrey, México

This volume displays several subjects in relation to the house projected and constructed by O'Gorman for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in San Angel, that are considered first of the funcionalist style for O'Gorman. The Rivera and Kahlo house is detailed as to theory, plan and use. It also includes the way in which Diego and Frida lived in those spaces.

Tratare de explicar que sentido tiene el agrupar arquitectos tan dispares. Mi intencion era el estudiar aquellos arquitectos cuya influencia se ha hecho sentir mas en estos ultimos anos, aquellos que acapararon la atencion de los estudiantes, cuya obra se ha discutido y ha interesado mas.

The recent boom of Chilean architecture of international and national recognition has been widely documented and promoted in mass publications, books and specialized journals. This book is a collaboration project between different architects that contribute to this process with critical texts of the historic contexts and problems faced by the urban-architectural practice in Chile, highlighting how the political-cultural events of the last 3 decades has influenced local construction. With texts by Jorge Fco. Liernur, Fernando Pérez, Federico Deambrosis and Pedro Bannen, and a prologue by...

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.