Michoacán, arquitectura y urbanismo

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...

Deporte, esforzada inquietud, sana actividad de movilidad de aparatos locomotores. Al final la mente descansa en un contenedor para vivir y, más adelante, triunfar en cada prueba convocada. Hace siglos Pélope, hijo del rey Tántalo, debatía, discutía y competía en carreras de caballos. En su conversa época tuvo tiempo de sentir la inmensa alegría del sabor de la victoria, de conocer a Niké. El trabajo que se presenta a continuación fue dibujado por mis alumnos Juan Francisco Abad Navarro y Elisa Martínez Aso siguiendo instrucciones según mis diseños y dirección en la concurrencia ...

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 ...

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...