Patrimonio arquitectónico del Valle del Aburrá

Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

Arte y Arquitectura examina los paralelismos existentes en la evolución reciente del arte y la arquitectura en el ámbito internacional. Los límites se desdibujan a medida que objetivos y actitudes convergen. Las intervenciones y los lugares se parecen cada día más. El espacio de tiempo que abarca este estudio comprende las dos últimas décadas del siglo xx (1978-1998. El libro consta de dos partes. En la página izquierda de cada capítulo se muestra la obra de un artista y en la de la derecha, la de un arquitecto. Las obras aparecen reunidas según conceptos y presentadas en ocho...

The subject of this artist's sketchbook is an artistic and environmental project that was inaugurated by Cristina Iglesias on November 6, 2010. It concerns an underwater labyrinth, consisting of three submerged rooms built in cement, in the waters off the Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California's Candelero Bay. This house will slowly be inhabited by life. The project was promoted by the Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental A.C. (Fundea), in collaboration with the marine biologists and conservationists of the La Paz Coasts and The San Diego Oceanography Institute. This portfolio...

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.