Bienvenidos a Bonfist

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.

A multidisciplinary collaboration that explores and documents the transcultural and urban transformations of the town of San Juan del Rio in the State of Querétaro.

La figura del jefe de obra resulta imprescindible en la construccion actual. Es un vertice en el que confluyen los intereses, muchas veces cruzados, de los distintos agentes del proceso edificatorio definidos en la LOE. Ejercer tan delicada funcion no requiere sin embargo, una titulacion academica especifica. El proposito de este libro es proporcionar conocimientos y fomentar la reflexion a aquellos que desean adentrarse en el complejo mundo de la direccion ejecutiva de las obras. Asimismo, pone en evidencia las carencias que padecen estos profesionales para formarse de forma reglada, de lo...

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 ...