Adolf Loos 1870-1933

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

Este volumen describe la arquitectura y las artes plsticas del periodo comprendido entre 1750 y 1848. escoger un titulo que haga justicia a la riqueza y diversidad de manifestaciones artsticas situadas entre el final del rococ y el principio del realismo no es tarea fcil. Quien a pesar de ello siga buscando la mejor etiqueta para la poca que nos ocupa, hallara en Neoclasicismo y Romanticismo los conceptos mas amplios y ricos en connotaciones.

An architecture school celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing representative student work, but concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to mere image-making. Instead of listing projects by type or name, it was decided they would be presented in question format (bilingually), underlining the importance of inquiry over image. Question entries numbered from 1 to 100 (grouped by theme) predetermined the books format. Elegance (it is about architecture) and informality (but also about students) had to be...

A major study and analysis of historic architecture and architectural styles in Puerto Rico from the colonial to modern.