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La estructura de análisis de este libro está dividida en tres partes, comenzando por los proyectos y culminando en la tesis, pasando por los ensayos teóricos, en un intento por entender cabalmente el arco vital de la formación del pensamiento arquitectónico desde el puro pragmatismo hasta el rigor especulativo. La primera parte de este ensayo está dedicada a los proyectos, es una selección ya que durante la carrera se llevan a cabo incontables ejercicios proyectuales, motivados por distintas exigencias académicas y muchos de ellos se pierden en la vorágine de la actividad. La...

"Architecture & Design Australia" is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients that continue to set the scene for the country's exciting architectural language. An index with contact information of the featured architects and designers is enclosed.

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.