El agua en Toledo y su entorno

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 ...

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...

27 research papers grouped into 3 sections that range from architectural history to studies of patrimony, urban studies, and conservation. Continuation of the editorial project started in 1999 to promote scholarship on architecture in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.

Prólogo Tal como enseñan todas las doctrinas y filosofías tradicionales, el Universo es un hecho simbólico, dice un proverbio árabe todo puede ser reducido a símbolos, excepto Tufân el aliento de fuego. Pareciera que existe en la causa primera, una fuente más antigua de símbolos cercana al fuego y al agua de vida, concepto próximo al simbolismo coránico del agua del mundo árabe. El pensamiento simbólico de los primeros pueblos indoeuropeos veían en muchas deidades la manifestación de fuegos primigenios y el manantial de lo simbólico, cierta unión donde los opuestos dejan de...