De la planeación a la acción

This the third book of the series prepared to spread and promote Mexican residential architecture, a style that is more and more pure and bright. Mexican residential architecture has succeeded in integrating proportion, functionality, context and materials for the pleasure of the persons who create or live in these homes.

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

La posibilidad de una arquitectura estrictamente funcional, aceptada en las primeras décadas del siglo XX, procede del siguiente argumento: en arquitectura, como en la naturaleza, la forma sigue (o debe seguir) a la función. El soporte material de dicho argumento fue la casa inglesa, supuestamente generada desde adentro hacia afuera, atendiendo exclusivamente a los usos. El lema inglés "cada cosa en su sitio y un sitio para cada cosa" fue utilizado para explicar la asociación entre utilidad e irregularidad. Pero la irregularidad de las casas inglesas no dependía tanto de los...