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"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

El presente libro es una antología de artículos y ensayos críticos cortos escritos por el autor de 2002 a 2008. Se inicia con una primera parte, dedicada a arquitecturas y arquitectos modernos, y que consta de una lectura de los antecedentes de la arquitectura de Utzon, de un ensayo sobre la arquitectura japonesa, de una lectura de la carrera de Josep Lluís Sert; y de dos textos sobre Aalto. La segunda parte está dedicada a la arquitectura contemporánea, con un texto dedicado al examen de la Arquitectura Española de las Instituciones a partir de 1992; un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de ...

Who ever said you can't have it all? This highly useful and decorative guide profiles lodgings around the world where you can enjoy the hippest of hospitality without breaking the bank. Including affordable hotels in locales as varied as Amsterdam and Cape Town, this guide makes sure your vacation fantasies can become reality.

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...