Enciclopedia de arquitectura Plazola

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Directory of the International Union of Architects, containing by-laws, ethics, competition regulations, committee meeting dates and locations, committee member listings, country member listings and a brief historical sketch of the union.

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.

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...