Metrópolis incompletas

The book is a thorough analysis of the architectonic and urban development of the city of Oaxaca from the last decades of the colonial period to the early 20th century. The author presents a novel revision of the city during the Porfirio Diaz regime, concluding that Oaxaca was the natural historic consequence of previous periods. Enclosed booklet is a graphic appendix.

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...

La experiencia del Grupo R se analiza en este libro desde una doble vertiente: su historia documental y sus obras más relevantes. Los 16 edificios seleccionados pertenecen a los arquitectos Moragas, Sostres, Pratmarsó, Coderch, Bohigas y Martorell, Bassó y Gili, Balcells, Ribas Piera y el equipo Giráldez, López Íñigo y Subías. Los autores del texto, Carme -Rodríguez, historiadora y Jorge Torres, arquitecto, aportan en este libro un estudio dedicado monográficamente a una experiencia pionera en la recuperación de la arquitectura moderna.

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.