La arquitectura moderna en Latinoamérica

El desarrollo del capitalismo industrial durante los siglos xix y xx trajo consigo un aumento muy considerable de la complejidad del mundo economico y tecnico, lo cual, en el plano de la administracion empresarial, ha generado la necesidad de ampliar y profundizar su ambito teorico y practico. Hoy en dia la gestion de empresas abarca un vasto campo del saber, donde concurren y se complementan los conocimientos provenientes de diversas ramas de las humanidades, las ciencias y la tecnica, y en donde cada disciplina juega un importante papel en la tarea de hacer dicha gestion cada vez mas...

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...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...