Ciencia y tecnología para el Hábitat popular 2010

Este manual está dedicado a todas las personas que se dedican al mantenimiento de edificios históricos y pretende ser una guía para facilitar la monitorización preventiva de todo el patrimonio arquitectónico de una forma asequible y generalizable. Así, siguiendo el método preventivo más adecuado a cada edificio, con el correcto análisis de todos los datos, podemos dictaminar las causas y soluciones más eficientes para los procesos patológicos que han ocasionado las lesiones manifestadas, con un menor coste. Está comúnmente aceptado que estudios adecuados mejoran el mantenimiento...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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 ...

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. ...