La Vivienda contemporánea

27 research papers grouped into 3 sections that range from architectural history to studies of patrimony, urban studies, and conservation. Continuation of the editorial project started in 1999 to promote scholarship on architecture in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

Este es un texto producto de una reflexión, de un pensamiento, pero fundamentalmente es el resultado de una práctica que lleva ya largos años y que está en condiciones de ser explicitada como cuerpo de ideas. La docencia en la Universidad nos fue presentando a través del tiempo una serie de problemas a los que tuvimos que enfrentar de modo más o menos imperfecto. De allí que estas reflexiones sean el fruto de ese trabajo y de las situaciones concretas que debimos transitar en el desarrollo de la tarea. Por eso estas palabras están dirigidas a todos mis colegas del campo de la...

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