Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica

Mario Botta (1943 geboren) studierte in Venedig Architektur bei Carlo Scarpa und erffnete 1970 sein eigenes Bro in Lugano. Heute reicht seine Ttigkeit bis in die Vereinigten Staaten und den Fernen Osten. Weltberhmt geworden ist Mario Botta durch seine zahlreichen Villen im Tessin: khl-elegante Bauten, die, oft an exponierter Lage situiert, einen spannungsvollen Dialog mit der Landschaft aufnehmen. Es sind visuelle Gebilde von magischer Wirkung. Ebenso beachtet sind Bottas Kirchenbauten, ob es sich nun um kleine Kapellen in den Tessiner Bergen oder um die Kathedrale von Evry bei Paris handelt, ...

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.

La historia de la humanidad está repleta de relatos fantásticos y extraños sobre ciudades legendarias que fueron las más avanzadas de su época, pero que de la noche a la mañana desaparecieron. Andoni Garrido, autor del famoso canal de YouTube «Pero eso es otra Historia», recoge casi cuarenta de estas leyendas de ciudades perdidas en la historia y en el tiempo, desde La Atlántida a El Dorado pasando por Lemuria, Hiperbórea, Shambhala, Yamatai, Cíbola o Aztlán entre otras, para tratar de dilucidar qué hay de verdad o de mentira en ellas, y tratar de buscar un posible origen para...

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...