Gonzalo Villa Chávez

Ya está aquí la Edición de Aniversario de Crónicas de Banqueta "La Revista", correspondiente al mes de Junio 2023. Disfrútala.

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

The innovative architectural styles that have emerged from the various climates of Colombian landscape are presented in these insightful essays and spectacular photographs. More than three hundred locations in Colombia fill the three sections divided up by climate zones: hot weather, warm weather, and cold weather. As the creativity of traditional and emerging Colombian architects is revealed, so to is the stunning landscape of a country whose varying climate and indigenous materials—such as guadua, a local bamboo—have influenced Colombian architectural form and content. Las novedosas...

El autor se refiere sintéticamnete a los contenidos primarios de la investigación emprendida por los pioneros que dieron sustento a la concepción social de la arquitectura contemporánea, hasta arribar al criterio que consolida la preponderancia de la función residencial en la conformación de la ciudad. Como corolario se proponen actuaciones académicas con criterio de investigación aplicada que incluyan nociones de diseño para operar con recursos escasos y tecnologías apropiadas.