El museo fuera de lugar

A major study and analysis of historic architecture and architectural styles in Puerto Rico from the colonial to modern.

The bathroom is no longer given over solely to personal hygiene, but instead has become a room in which freedom of design and expression can be achieved. This book features some of the most practical designs which still manage to integrate aesthetic qualities.

El libro presenta, en forma teórica y empírica, los aportes generados en la gestión urbanística a partir de la implementación de intervenciones de carácter mixto (público/público-público/privado) en vacíos urbanos de ciudades centrales, procurando desentrañar los marcos conceptuales, métodos y medios (mecanismos e instrumentos) de intervención planificada que sustenten nuevas y originales políticas públicas de gestión que permitan la reestructuración y recuperación de sectores urbanos degradados y obsoletos, con el fin de disputar aquellas políticas sustentadas en...

A detailed study that examines the architecture of Fernando Martínez Sanabria (b. Spain, lived and worked in Colombia since 1938- d. 1991) throughout one of his most recognized buildings: the building of the Caja Agraria (1965) located in Barranquilla. The author examines this commercial project from its initial design process and proposes an analytical view of the building through its anatomical construction systems of light and semi-darkness developed by architect Martínez Sanabria.