El taller de arquitectura

Esta recopilación de obras se origina en el deseo de aprovechar los medios digitales para registrarlas en un archivo sintético, se la ha separado en dos sectores. Uno, dedicado a viviendas individuales o colectivas, y otro a proyectos especiales de edificios comerciales, industriales, para educación o salud. En éste se incorporan algunos dibujos que fueron la propuesta inicial que condujo en definitiva a la obra realizada.

Tipologia. Apuntes Para Una Investigacion La arquitectura considerada como instrumento biológico. Este libro contiene algunos textos y gráficos derivados de una investigación aplicada sobre proyectos y obras de diversos tipos de viviendas, guiada por la consideración de la arquitectura como instrumento biológico

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.

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...

7 papers presented at the simposium "Arquitectura y Percepción" in 2005. The emphasis was on architecture of the 1960's and 1970's.

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...