Suelo urbano y vivienda social en Bogotá

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.

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.

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. ...

El aprendizaje que experimenta el futuro arquitecto es una versión aplicada y específica de la formación humana. Por tanto, comparte con ella que se trata de una trascendental tarea, cuyas pautas y concreciones caminan de la mano de la evolución social. En consecuencia, la enseñanza de la Arquitectura está supeditada al cambio. La innovación docente, a la que los profesores del Grado en Arquitectura del CEU llevamos tributando ya cuatro años, trasciende la implantación de modalidades de Enseñanza/Aprendizaje específicas. Se trata de toda una actitud, de la que debe siempre hacerse...