Ciencia y tecnología para el Hábitat popular 2010

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

In the nineties, the modern orthodoxy has stopped imposing its criteria. At a time when there are as many architectural philosophies as architects, this volume offers us some answers to the common question of where present-day architecture is going. This view of the current world of architecture is presented through analysis of the projects of the most recognized and respected architects, but also the most innovative ones and those of the new generations.

Oigame: ¿Qué es eso de Sesiones de Crítica de Arquitectura? Nada importante, no se asuste. Un grupo de arquitectos nos reunimos para charlar sobre temas de arquitectura...Ya nos damos cuenta de nuestras limitaciones, y no pretendemos dogmatizar. Pero a los arquitectos españoles quizá les puedan interesar estas sencillas opiniones de algunos de sus compañeros. No hay que impresionarse por la palabra impresa, que no porque esté impresa adquiere en este caso mayor trascendencia: se imprimen estas palabras en tanto que son portadoras de ideas, no con carácter de valor notarial. En 1950...

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.