Diseño industrial argentino

Mantova (Mantua), capital de Matilde di Canossa y de la familia Gonzaga, es una isla encantada rodeada por tres lagos formados por el Mincio. La impresionante escenografía de la época de los Gonzaga, los maravillosos frescos de los Mantegna, las fabulosas invenciones de Giulio Romano en el Palacio del Té, las iglesias, las casas patricias cuentan la historia. A pocos kilómetros de Mantua, podemos admirar el hermoso santuario de la Beata Vergine alle Grazie, la abadía benedictina de Polirone en San Benedetto Po, las pequeñas parroquias del pueblo y los antiguos tribunales. En la fértil...

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

"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...

Este libro de Louis H. Sullivan es el documento que registra las teorías que influyeron a las generaciones que lo siguieron como lo atestigua el apodo de "Meister" que le diera su principal continuador, Frank Lloyd Wright.--