Reconversión sustentable de edificios

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...

27 research papers grouped into 3 sections that range from architectural history to studies of patrimony, urban studies, and conservation. Continuation of the editorial project started in 1999 to promote scholarship on architecture in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.

Quizás en mucho tiempo no se había realizado un descubrimiento tan importante como el que aquí se muestra con imágenes, sobre lo que probablemente sea la Atlántida, el continente perdido, el que ha inspirado infinidad de leyendas, libros y películas. Del que se había pensado que solo era un mito, ya que por mucho tiempo ha sido buscado y nunca encontrado, porque no se exploró en el lugar correcto: en América. Estas y otras teorías sobre quiénes realizaron las construcciones, su posible relación e influencia con las grandes culturas en América y Egipto, principalmente, y su...

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...