Forma y ciudad

A listing of restaurants in Milan, including locations, short reviews, average prices and recipes for some of their dishes.

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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.

Deambular, siguiendo estrictamente el significado que nos da el DRAE, es ir de un lugar a otro sin un fin determinado. Posiblemente, pudiera parecer que ello supone caminar sin lógica, sin rumbo alguno. Realmente consiste en dedicar tiempo al hecho del recorrido, sin pretensión de llegar a un punto determinado. Es usual encontrar espacios "de pasos perdidos" en arquitecturas en las que la componente dialéctica o reflexiva tiene un papel configurador. Surgen así las girolas, deambulatorios o peristilos, dando cabida a un hecho eminentemente socrático: recorrer sin llegar a un final,...