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Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

The transformation of public space in Mexico City through the years are evident, the population growth and its demands has resulted in a complex network of resources necessary for the coexistence and development in the city. Just to illustrate this phenomenon from one Delegation, Coyoacán, to size the number of factors that shaped the urban environment of this century. To further explore the topic, the study is divided into three distinct areas of the delegation and is exemplified in the history of the creation of these spaces through maps and graphs that they add images and allowing the...

"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.

"En esta serie de profundos y conmovedores ensayos críticos, Salíngaros y varios asociados cercanos aÿrman que interpretamos la vida en la arquitectura como el trasfondo de la comunidad humana — la preparación para nuestro lugar de vivienda... Un día, quizás Salíngaros será lectura obligatoria para los arquitectos. Si eso pasa podría ser que surja una nueva ortodoxia, en la cual la humildad, el orden, y el espíritu público — las virtudes que han sido expulsadas de la disciplina por los arquitectos estrellas — serán la norma." — Roger Scruton. "¿Cuáles son las ideas y los ...