Sevilla y Sevila

"En esta serie de profundos y conmovedores ensayos críticos, Salíngaros y varios asociados cercanos aÿrman que interpretamos la vida en la arquitectura como el trasfondo de la comunidad humana — la preparación para nuestro lugar de vivienda... Un día, quizás Salíngaros será lectura obligatoria para los arquitectos. Si eso pasa podría ser que surja una nueva ortodoxia, en la cual la humildad, el orden, y el espíritu público — las virtudes que han sido expulsadas de la disciplina por los arquitectos estrellas — serán la norma." — Roger Scruton. "¿Cuáles son las ideas y los ...

This well-illustrated Spanish-language book retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500, showing the extraordinary synchronicity of this architecture with that of other Old World societies. Featured cities include Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center; Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center; and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2,500 glyphs.

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

Directory of the International Union of Architects, containing by-laws, ethics, competition regulations, committee meeting dates and locations, committee member listings, country member listings and a brief historical sketch of the union.