Forma y ciudad

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.

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.--

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

Este libro trata sobre claves que determinan los escenarios espaciales del encuentro de las fuerzas entre la arquitectura y el agua, siguiendo el curso del compromiso que obliga a entremezclarse a ambas en el acuerdo que actúa como fundamento, donde el análisis de las estrategias se antecede a fin de establecer las mejores condiciones para el desarrollo de los procesos de la planificación de la ciudad.