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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 ...

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

Así como el profesional adaptó los modelos del eclecticismo europeo a funciones y situaciones urbanas singulares constructivamente se incorporaron soluciones técnicas que implicaban rapidez y calidad de ejecución. Las fachadas reproducen, desde una arquitectura ladrillera, una sintaxis y gramática en correspondencia a un lenguaje estilístico predeterminado, que reemplaza la piedra original, con revestimientos continuos que la simulan, terminación tipo símil–piedra. Esta técnica de revestimientos continuos, prácticamente ha desaparecido en nuestro medio, tanto en lo constructivo...