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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.

Un nuevo y amplio ensayo sobre este admirado estilo en la arquitectura, con ejemplos de sus comienzos "brutales" en los años 50 hasta nuestros días. Nos presenta muchos edificios brutalistas casi desconocidos del antiguo bloque comunista de Europa y de otros lugares del planeta. Contiene el trabajo de los grandes arquitectos contemporáneos como Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Herzog & de Meuron, John Pawson, Jean Nouvel, Toyo Ito, Peter Zumthor, Daniel Libeskind, Thomas Heatherwick, Rem Koolhaas / OMA, Peter Eisenman, O Tadao Ando. Contiene el trabajo de los grandes maestros del siglo XX...

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.

Con esta obra se pretende abordar, de modo técnico, por qué es necesaria la conservación de la naturaleza, como herramienta que contribuye al desarrollo de la sostenibilidad.