Las bóvedas de Guastavino en América

Traces the career of the turn of the century Spanish architect, shows his designs for homes, apartments, schools, and churches, and discusses his unique, organic style

Los estudios que contienen este volumen están centrados, tanto en la temática tratada como en los resultados de estudios y actuaciones arqueológicas inéditas desarrolladas en los últimos años. Estas aportaciones pretenden mejorar nuestro conocimiento sobre los sistemas hidráulicos presentes en la ciudad de Toledo y su entorno durante la época romana y los siglos medievales, de manera que arrojen nueva luz sobre esta problemática arqueológica e histórica. De este modo, con esta publicación se pone a disposición de la comunidad científica y de los interesados en el tema un...

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.

Inventory of architectural patrimony and popular culture in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The first part is devoted to architecture and monuments from Pre-Columbian , colonial, 19th and 20th century, with emphasis on Pre-Columbian cultures. Includes mural art and some information on archival holdings. The second half is devoted to folkart, crafts, local culinary history, folklore, fiestas at the village, town, city and state levels.