Escuchar y transformar la ciudad

As part of the celebration of the Symposium "Shell and Spatial Structures: New Materials and Technologies, New Designs and Innovations -- A Sustainable Approach to Architectural and Structural Design" of the International Association of Special Structures (IASS-SLTE) held October 23-31, 2008 in Acapulco, the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM developed 3 projects specifically for the occasion: 1) An exhibition of representative scale models of the "golden age" (1950-1975) of the construction of reinforced concrete shells in Mexico; 2) A documentary featuring the characteristics and evolution ...

Que debe hacer el diseno para solucionar su(s) problema(s)? Es necesario saberlo para poder juzgar si los problemas estan realmente solucionados o, lo que es lo mismo, para efectuar una evaluacion posterior a la ocupacion del entorno (...). Esto es esencial, ya que todo diseno puede considerarse una hipotesis de la forma: "Si se hace esto y lo otro, ocurrira esto y aquello." Pero luego hace falta demostrarlo. Solo asi uno sera capaz de encadenar exitos fiables y previsibles (...) Los objetivos han de ser definidos de forma explicita y su validez justificada, haciendo referencias al...

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.

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.