Espacios mínimos habitables

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

Este libro analiza las relaciones entre niveles de gobierno; entre entidades territoriales locales y entre el sector público y privado en el proceso de gestión de tres Sistemas Integrados de Transporte Masivo en áreas metropolitanas o conturbaciones de Colombia. Se realiza un análisis comparado de tres casos de estudio: Transmilenio (Bogotá-Soacha), Megabús (Área Metropolitana de Centro Occidente), y Transmetro (Área Metropolitana de Barranquilla). Se reseña los retos de la planificación y gestión del transporte (y en general de los grandes proyectos urbanos) en la escala...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...