Reciclado de ciudades

Cristian Jara relata la historia de los arquitectos de Chile durante el siglo XX, desde la etapa inmediatamente previa a la fundación del Colegio de la orden hasta la actualidad. El autor sostiene que desde el comienzo del periodo, los arquitectos nacionales alcanzaron una identidad profesional y gremial ligada a las necesidades que la sociedad iba planteando y estrechamente conectada con las ideas de la Arquitectura Moderna: "Los arquitectos llegaron a coincidir en que su rol social debía ser contribuir a la construcción de la ciudad moderna, y para lograr dicho objetivo debían obtener...

Now also available in Romanic language editions: In Detail: Solar Architecture, presenting advanced new technologies and sophisticated planning systems for architecture which looks beyond fossil fuels to the future.

The Catalog Architecture of the Modern Movement of Peru (CAMMP) is the outcome of the investigation of the same name the University of Lima developed between 2013 and 2015. It is the first initiative that set out to inventory and document the most important buildings of the national production in the modern period. Thus, collects and systematizes information and original documents of architecture - drawings, descriptions, photographs, perspectives - found in various publications of the time and files of the authors themselves.--

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...