Curso de dibujo arquitectónico

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

200 colour photos and plans ”One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced only last fall, the Paris and : guide provides tourists and professionals alike with an overview of new and notable architecture and interior design in "the city of light." More than sixty buildings-governmental and residential, commercial and religious-by renowned architects such as Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and I. M. Pei to name a few, are profiled and accompanied by color photographs. Easy to use and attractively designed with flexi covers, these CD-sized gems will be a...

En este libro se ensaya una visión de la arquitectura moderna dirigida a diferenciar sus aspectos racionales de aquellos que son consecuencia de la emoción. Buscar en la dualidad razón-sentimiento el origen del proceder del artista lleva a comprobar la subjetividad con la que el arquitecto moderno debe dicidir, en cada momento, entre seguir fiel a la razón o dejarse llevar por sentimientos. La distinta afinidad que muestran hacia Apolo y Dionisos y, en consecuencia, el predominio de uno u otro, acaba por definir el temperamento de su obra. El análisis se realiza sobre doce obras maestras ...

Architectural study on the religious buildings of collective character built by the Jewish community of Buenos Aires in the 19t and 20th centuries and where the synagogues are the best examples. Their choices of architectural styles or languages responded to the historic moment when these buildings were constructed and respond to the preferences of each group according to their origin or its constructors or architects. The study analyses their morphology, mostly monumental, outside the city limits, and loaded inside and outside with ornaments and visible symbols of Judaism.