Patrimonio cultural de Veracruz

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 ...

El libro de Pepa Cassinello rinde homenaje a uno de los más relevantes protagonistas internacionales de la Aventura Laminar de la Arquitectura Moderna, venerado capítulo de la Historia de la Construcción en el siglo XX. Aglutina en sus páginas un variado y amplio análisis de su obra, a través de la visión de algunos de los más destacados profesionales internacionales (Manterola, Torroja, Aroca, Calavera, Billington, Schlaich, Oliva ...) de la arquitectura, la ingeniería y su enseñanza. Tres disciplinas que Félix Candela, constructor y maestro de "cascarones de hormigón armado",...

Barcelona 1992-2004 offers a selection of chronologically arranged projects that provide an overview of the period that commences with the 1992 Olympic Games and culminates in the huge cultural event that is the Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. The selection has focused in particular on projects involving the city’s openness to the sea and those which have managed to adapt to its existing residential fabric. Presented as separate chapters are projects for new high-rise buildings and schemes for the 22@ plan and the Universal Forum of Cultures. The selection is preceded by a text...

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...