Patrimonio urbano de la Ciudad de México: la herencia disputada

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

The innovative architectural styles that have emerged from the various climates of Colombian landscape are presented in these insightful essays and spectacular photographs. More than three hundred locations in Colombia fill the three sections divided up by climate zones: hot weather, warm weather, and cold weather. As the creativity of traditional and emerging Colombian architects is revealed, so to is the stunning landscape of a country whose varying climate and indigenous materials—such as guadua, a local bamboo—have influenced Colombian architectural form and content. Las novedosas...

Para responder a las dinámicas de la vida contemporánea, es de suma importancia la mejora en la calidad de vida de los habitantes en su cotidianidad, a través de la generación de espacios dentro de la ciudad y que en la medida de lo posible propicien su desarrollo social e integral. Y en ese sentido concebir una visión de ciudad para el uso y disfrute de todos. El estudio que aquí se presenta busca a través de la contextualización de las problemáticas socioeconómicas que aquejan a Puerto Vallarta específicamente en las áreas cercanas al libramiento Luis Donaldo Colosio, proponer...

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,...