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...

27 research papers grouped into 3 sections that range from architectural history to studies of patrimony, urban studies, and conservation. Continuation of the editorial project started in 1999 to promote scholarship on architecture in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.

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...

En nuestro país, no es fácil recibirse de arquitecto y crecer en coherencia con toda la capacitación recibida. Nos preparan en los diversos temas que hacen al hábitat social, y la realidad del trabajo luego se circunscribe al tema de la vivienda, con características más comerciales que de cobijo al hombre.El estudio desde sus comienzos demostró capacidad, creatividad y nivel, ganando el Concurso Nacional De Ideas Para El Área Nuevo Colegiales, en las cercanías del Mercado de Pulgas, luego el Concurso para el Nuevo edificio del Colegio de Abogados de la Capital Federal, en la calle...