Materiales en arquitectura

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.

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

Las catedrales góticas, asombrosas hazañas de la construcción y la ingeniería procedentes de un periodo anterior a las estructuras de acero y a las máquinas industriales, siguen resultando, cientos de años después de su construcción, impresionantes por su escala y grandeza. Centrado en la época dorada de la construcción de estos símbolos históricos de la fe cristiana, Cómo construir una catedral examina uno a uno cada elemento de la estructura, desde la planta hasta la culminación de la aguja, y explica el proceso de construcción medieval en detalle. Escrito por uno de los más ...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.