Lecture (Spanish)

Según el Censo de 1947 el Conurbano Bonaerense tenía 1,74 millones de habitantes en tanto que en el censo de 2001 esa cantidad se había multiplicado por 5, alcanzando a los 8,68 millones. Esos habitantes viven hoy el 60% sin redes de cloacas, 25% sin agua corriente, segregados laboral y socialmente, expuestos a la inseguridad y a la droga. Quieren irse, volver a sus provincias, a sus costumbres y a sus raíces, pero no pueden, están como encadenados a sus viviendas. Ésa es una de las causas por las que este libro propone modificar el régimen de tenencia de las viviendas sociales a fin...

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This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

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 ...