Reconversión sustentable de edificios

A multidisciplinary collaboration that explores and documents the transcultural and urban transformations of the town of San Juan del Rio in the State of Querétaro.

Este libro pretende ser una mirada a la obra de Elda Cerrato a través de su propia voz, desde la entrevista que realizara Paula Siganevich, profesora e investigadora de la carrera de Diseño gráfico, en el marco del ciclo de Conferencias Interdisciplinarias TRAMA de Diseño 2007, organizado por la Cátedra Rico de Diseño gráfico y auspiciada por Centro de estudiantes - CEADIG y la Dirección de cultura de la Secretaría de extensión universitaria de la Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. La conferencia se tituló "La memoria en los bordes"-...

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...

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...