Acerca de la enseñanza del diseño

This well-illustrated Spanish-language book retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500, showing the extraordinary synchronicity of this architecture with that of other Old World societies. Featured cities include Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center; Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center; and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2,500 glyphs.

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 ...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

"Decidido impulsor de la línea curva en el diseño arquitectónico y pionero en el uso del hormigón armado, Oscar Niemeyer fue el creador-constructor de una obra inmensa que recorre y define, inventándola, la arquitectura del siglo XX en Brasil y deja su impronta -la curva sensual, natural, incitante- en el mundo. Sus escritos aquí parcialmente reunidos reflejan esa constante preocupación y dejan traslucir, a manera de preceptiva intermitente, su voluntad de crear una arquitectura que fuera como esas "rachas de felicidad" que Borges definió con tanta sutileza y precisión, una...