Hacia un urbanismo alternativo

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 ...

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...

El presente libro trata sobre un tema actual y vigente: el entorno urbano -las ciudades-. En él, un grupo interdisciplinario conformado por físicos, biólogos, arquitectos, economistas, diseñadores y urbanistas, discuten sus ideas y visiones guiados y unificados bajo el paradigma y enfoque de la complejidad. Se trata de entender y explicar fenómenos emergentes y colectivos en el contexto urbano, haciendo uso conceptual de lo que en física llaman el "principio de superposición": el todo es más que la suma de las partes. Así, las ciudades son más que la suma de sus espacios...

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...