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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...

Se intenta aquí desarrollar ideas que faciliten la comprensión de la contemporaneidad del historicismo arquitectónico con su tiempo. Lo que no apunta a una justificación, a un elogio o a una disculpa. Sólo se busca comprender un acto aparentemente desatinado. A pesar de sus ganas de revivir el pasado, el "juramento de los Horacios" seguirá siendo una pintura de fines del siglo XVIII y la iglesia de La Madelaine, un templo típico de principios del 1900. Ninguno de los dos será romano o griego según las preferencias de sus autores. Este ensayo intenta, no sin temeridad, arrimar...

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Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...