Patrimonio cultural de Veracruz

Brief overview of ObregÑn's (b. Mexico) work as one of the most influencial Mexican born architects of the 20th century.

El presente libro es una antología de artículos y ensayos críticos cortos escritos por el autor de 2002 a 2008. Se inicia con una primera parte, dedicada a arquitecturas y arquitectos modernos, y que consta de una lectura de los antecedentes de la arquitectura de Utzon, de un ensayo sobre la arquitectura japonesa, de una lectura de la carrera de Josep Lluís Sert; y de dos textos sobre Aalto. La segunda parte está dedicada a la arquitectura contemporánea, con un texto dedicado al examen de la Arquitectura Española de las Instituciones a partir de 1992; un ensayo sobre la arquitectura de ...

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

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...