ANTIARQUITECTURA Y DECONSTRUCCION

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

Hemos consumido los 10 primeros años del S XXI sin avances sustanciales en los problemas fundamentales que plantea la globalización y un medio ambiente necesariamente compartido. Las notas que Fernando Diez publicó en la página de Opinión del diario La Nación entre los años 2001 y 2011, ahora reunidas en este libro, mantienen la actualidad de temas que, a pesar de su urgencia, no han comenzado a resolverse, en algunos casos, nisiquiera a discutirse. Medio ambiente y sociendad aparecen unvidos en las decisiones que pronto deberán afrontarse, tanto en la escala doméstica como en la del ...

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...