Arquitectura moderna en la central de Soto de Ribera

"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.

"Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo de investigación llevado a cabo desde la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Manizales, orientado a identificar las características formales y constructivas de las estructuras laminares [membranas y plegaduras] diseñadas y edificadas en Colombia durante un período de veinticinco años contados a partir de 1945, por profesionales nacionales que conocían bien lo que por entonces ocurría en el contexto de la arquitectura internacional y de manera particular en el campo de los sistemas estructurales destinados a cubrir grandes superficies con...

El objeto de este trabajo es contribuir a una teoría del proyecto arquitectónico en la que la idea de tipo no se conciba como un mecanismo reproductor sino como una estructura de la forma capaz de múltiples desarrollos.

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...