Enciclopedia de arquitectura Plazola

Si bien el umbral es la pieza que define el límite entre dos espacios debajo de una puerta, este texto presenta la noción de "Umbral" como transición. Conceptualiza la idea del ingreso a un edificio como un "lugar" que no es adentro ni afuera pero que es al mismo tiempo las dos cosas. Luego ejemplifica, a través de un recorrido de arquitecturas cercanas y lejanas en tiempo y geografía, situaciones de umbral que nos permiten reconocer el fenómeno en sus diversas manifestaciones. Este texto pretende sensibilizar a nuestros alumnos en la percepción de los espacios que nos acompañan...

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...

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 ...

The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was...