La arquitectura moderna en Latinoamérica

Este libro trata de una ciudad concreta –Leganés-, pero habla de un conjunto general de problemas acerca de nuestras instituciones políticas. Su argumento es, por tanto, ilustrativo. En un campo como el de los estudios políticos, saturado de referentes universales y de abstracciones sin sujeto, la aproximación etnográfica que caracteriza a esta investigación trata de ofrecer una reflexión encarnada en agentes y procesos concretos. La intención global del estudio es ofrecer un esquema de las relaciones paradójicas entre el campo de la política especializada y el campo de las...

San Miguel, Tauste 1421. Apuntes para la biografía de un arcángel. Enrique Galé Casajús El patrimonio como recurso. El caso ejemplarizante de Albarracín. Antonio Jiménez Martínez Los votos aragoneses. Armas contra las catástrofes. Ma Jesús Torreblanca Gaspar

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...

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 ...