Enciclopedia de arquitectura Plazola

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...

¿Te has preguntado qué es lo que ocurre en los castillos, casas, hoteles y mansiones embrujados cuando se va el sol? ¿Te has preguntado qué es lo que ocurre en los cementerios cuando es de noche? ¿Porqué estos lugares están rodeados de temas tabú en muchas culturas? Entonces sigue leyendo.. “Se encuentra frente al gran misterio... Al que hace temblar a la humanidad desde su origen: lo desconocido.” - Gastón Leroux. Existen diversas casas, haciendas, mansiones, cementerios e incluso castillos que han sido testigos de asesinatos, violencia, injusticia, corrupción, y muchos otros...

A multidisciplinary collaboration that explores and documents the transcultural and urban transformations of the town of San Juan del Rio in the State of Querétaro.

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.