Arquitectura sagrada

In September of 2005 a group academics, civil organizations and federal, state and municipal government representatives were summoned with the purpose of analyzing the legislature, experiences and strategies developed for the protection and conservation of the cultural patrimony of Mexico. The meeting was held in the city of Morelia (State of Michoacn) where most of the conservation and protection efforts of viceregal architecture specialist Manuel González Galván took place, the reason which is why this colloquium honored his legacy. "After reading this memoirs of this colloquium, it is...

Este libro documenta la conversación de Carmelo Di Bartolo, experimentado diseñador italiano, con los alumnos de la Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño del Tecnológico de Monterrey.

La obra estudia la relación existente entre las formas de vivir, los distintos filones del pensamiento contemporáneo, y las formas de la casa, de proyectarla y habitarla, a través de la visita a siete casas fantásticas (reales o imaginarias). De esta forma, se pretende mostrar cómo la manera más extendida de pensar y proyectar el espacio doméstico que sigue aún vigente entre los arquitectos no es más que una materialización de ideas arquetípicas en torno a la casa y los modos de vida que tienen su origen en uno de estos filones, el positivista.

The present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.