Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica

Catalogue comprising 104 buildings in Monterrey that represent the best survivingexamples of the modern movement architecture. These examples of civil architecture constructedduring first half of the 20th century include Art Deco, Streamline and Modernist stylesLimitedavailability.

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

"Referido al conjunto patrimonial de la orden Franciscana en Santiago y su entorno, una trama de temas arquitectónicos, urbanos y patrimoniales confluyen en este volumen. La consideración de las cambiantes fisonomías e interfaces urbanas de los conventos franciscanos en Latinoamérica constituye un aporte inédito, que enriquece y sitúa la comprensión del caso local en un contexto histórico y geográfico mayor. Esta sección, realizada por especialistas y observada desde sus respectivos casos, devela los trances urbanos de Lima, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Río de Janeiro, Bogotá, Quito, La ...