Apolo y Dionisos

Efímera por naturaleza, juego constante entre el ser y el parecer, la moda es sinónimo de cambio continuo. Con la irrupción de los medios de comunicación masiva, su influencia se cumplió de manera notable. De fenómeno de elites mutó a industria poderosa, en un proceso mundial del que la Argentina participa cada vez más activamente. Historia de la moda y el diseño argentino desde 1776 ofrece un panorama de la vestimenta urbana desde la colonia hasta la actualidad. La moda como mecanismo de poder, la alta costura y el prêt-à-porter, las principales casas y los grandes nombres, las...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

A collection of writings by Enrique Yañez to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death. The text presents an approach to life and observations of the architect, covering the fields of architecture, its social function, urbanism, society and culture.

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.