Museos, arquitectura, arte

Un equipo de 19 personas de muy diversas profesiones configuran este manual, de gran utilidad en la práctica, sobre todas las vertientes de una exposición. El libro está dividido en cinco apartados: La gestión, La aplicación de las técnicas tradicionales, La ubicación y el traslado, Las nuevas tecnologías y El diseño.

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...

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 ...

Vienna's once exalted status as the showpiece of an empire is reflected in the elegance and monumentality of its architecture. But behind and beyond the stately façades, design innovations are transforming interiors and resulting in exciting new residential and commercial buildings being constructed at the city's edges. This user-friendly little guide profiles some of the most notable projects built during the last few years and includes color photographs and a site map. Another in teNeues' authoritative series of pocket guides to recent architecture in cities around the world Includes color ...

La obra de Rafael Iglesia (1952-2015) ha sido extensamente difundida. No obstante, de la copiosa labor crítica dedicada a su producción se recorta un campo escasamente explorado: su programa creativo. Para abordarlo, Claudio Solari hace uso de la definición que Paul Valéry hiciera de poética como acción que hace y que atiende a los dos movimientos que concurren en igual medida en los trabajos de Iglesia: el de la contradicción y el error, y el del orden y la concentración. El trabajo devela una construcción poética en Iglesia que, según la hipótesis del autor, se funda en...