Territorios de la infancia

Deporte, esforzada inquietud, sana actividad de movilidad de aparatos locomotores. Al final la mente descansa en un contenedor para vivir y, más adelante, triunfar en cada prueba convocada. Hace siglos Pélope, hijo del rey Tántalo, debatía, discutía y competía en carreras de caballos. En su conversa época tuvo tiempo de sentir la inmensa alegría del sabor de la victoria, de conocer a Niké. El trabajo que se presenta a continuación fue dibujado por mis alumnos Juan Francisco Abad Navarro y Elisa Martínez Aso siguiendo instrucciones según mis diseños y dirección en la concurrencia ...

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 ...

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...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.