More Than 100 Kitchen Designs

"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...

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...

La propuesta de este libro se enmarca dentro del ámbito de la Arquitectura Artificial y, en concreto, de la Inteligencia Artificial aplicada al Diseño Arquitectónico. El autor propone el modelado de la Tarea de Interpretación del espacio arquitectónico mediante la metodología Common-KADS de la Ingeniería del Conocimiento, basado en la parametrización de los conceptos, atributos, relaciones e inferencias que enlazan la estructura física del edificio con la percepción de los componentes topológicos y el modelo del habitar.

La actualidad e interés de cuanto este libro plantea quedaría demostrada con solo llevar a cabo una visión retrospectiva de algunos aspectos del desarrollo de la restauración en nuestro país.