La Habana, arquitectura del siglo XX

En sintonía con los postulados desarrollistas sustentados en una renovada fe en el "progreso tecnológico", conceptos tales como la flexibilidad, transitoriedad, crecimiento continuo, ensamblaje, organización, estructuras constructivas, o bien la inclusión de modelos matemáticos, diagramáticos o de comunicación gráfica prometían abordar las transformaciones de la cultura urbana dando lugar además, a las participación de la sociedad en los derroteros de la formulación de las normativas y criterios para la vida en la ciudad. Las décadas entre la inmediata posguerra y los años...

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...

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...

Luxurious edition that reviews the history and architecture of the Mexican governmental building "Palacio Nacional" and the rich artistic and political patrimony it holds.