Vientos de libertad

After the exile of Porfirio Díaz and the election of Francisco I. Madero as president of Mexico, Victoriano Huerta leads a coup d'etat that culminated in the assassination of Madero and Pino Suarez. The usurpation of the presidency at the hands of Huerta causes several revolutionary leaders such as Francisco Villa and Venustiano Carranza, to take up arms again.

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...

Cincuenta años después de la primera edición original alemana, Sistemas de estructuras sigue siendo un manual clásico y al mismo tiempo innovador. Se ha convertido en uno de los tratados de referencia del diseño de estructuras en arquitectura, gracias a una original aproximación que renuncia explícitamente al enfoque tipológico y al uso de textos teóricos y cálculos matemáticos para centrarse en el funcionamiento estructural mediante gráficos. Rigurosamente ordenado y articulado, el libro presenta los diferentes sistemas de estructuras a través de series de dibujos y pequeñas...

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...