Gonzalo Villa Chávez

The present edition publishes part of the research papers presented during the "Seminario de Investigación Arquitectura para la Producción" organized by the university of Michoacán between 2001 and 2002 that included the participation of national and international academics. The book gathers 23 collective and individual multidisciplinary works that examine from various perspectives the history of architecture in rural areas. Works are mainly focused in the colonial territory of the ex-bishopry of Michoacán divided in 4 main topics: Space, settlements, technology and environment and...

"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...

Este libro es el resultado de una doble apuesta por parte del Instituto del Agua y de las Ciencias Ambientales. Por una parte, trata de profundizar en la importancia del agua en el territorio europeo y, por otra, ampliar el abanico disciplinar desde el que se estudian los fenómenos asociados a los territorios marítimos, fluviales y humedales.La valoración del agua como elemento paisajístico en las ciudades y el territorio es relativamente muy reciente. El mar, los ríos y las zonas húmedas han sido tradicionalmente, bien un medio de comunicación con valor económico, o bien un problema...

A multidisciplinary collaboration that explores and documents the transcultural and urban transformations of the town of San Juan del Rio in the State of Querétaro.