1930-1950: arquitectura moderna en Buenos Aires

Known until recently for such public facilities as the Zamora Municipal Museum, the Castellón Fine Arts Museum and the León Auditorium, over the last few years Mansilla + Tuñón have developed a number of projects in which urban scale and the problems of inhabiting in the contemporary city assume more and more importance. In this issue of 2G we present the (almost) complete works of these Madrid architects, works grouped around the basic ideas which define their projects, namely memory and the city, system and restrictions, sameness and difference, and lastly trace and landscape. These...

A mediados del XIX la rÃa de Bilbao inici€ un proceso de transformaciones que configuraron una nueva sociedad sustentada en la industria. Una de las condiciones que hicieron posible esa transformaci€n fue la transferencia de propiedad a lo largo de la rÃa, que permiti€ a la burguesÃa ejercer un rÃgido control de los municipios ribere“os, organizando la implantaci€n industrial y de infraestructuras imprescindibles. Este estudio analiza el proceso por el que la dedicaci€n de terrenos a proyectos de promoci€n veraniega que giraban sobre playas y servicios de ocio burgu»s,...

El participante adquirirá los fundamentos básicos para verificar la estructura de una obra civil o inmueble, con fundamentos basados en la normatividad vigente, procedimientos administrativos, y parámetros cuantitativos tecnológicos pertinentes.

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.