Casas internacional 183: Extremadura

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.

GEOMETRÍA fue una revista técnica e independiente que, dirigida por el Arquitecto José Seguí, se editó entre los años 1.985 y 2.000 tratando de recuperar el diálogo profesional entre las prácticas de la arquitectura y del urbanismo, desarrollando y entendiendo el proyecto arquitectónico y urbanístico desde la propia estructura urbana que lo soporta y su referencia al proyecto global de la ciudad. Esta conjunción de valores estéticos y prácticos, que podríamos definirlos como el arte de construir ciudades, fue el centro de un debate profesional que construyó la disciplina de la...

This well-illustrated Spanish-language book retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500, showing the extraordinary synchronicity of this architecture with that of other Old World societies. Featured cities include Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center; Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center; and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2,500 glyphs.

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 ...