Humanos a la obra en otros lugares

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.

Una antología de textos que resume y representa, muy expresivamente, una bibliografía temática, realizada por los miembros del Grupo de Investigación "Teoría y crítica del proyecto y de la arquitectura moderna y contemporánea", de la Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid. Así pues, artículos o capítulos de Antón Capitel, Juan Antonio Cortés, Luis Rojo, Enrique de Teresa, Aurora Fernández, Rafael Guridi, Maria Teresa Muñoz, Pedro Feduchi y Sergio de Miguel componen la antología, que introduce y presenta una bibliografía ordenada temáticamente y de modo empírico, y capaz así de...

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...