Elementos de ordenación urbana

The shopping mall is one of the typologies most succesfully developed in the twentieth century. The work of the Mexican architural firm Grupo Arquitech has ventured into this fertile territory. Directed by Juan José Sánchez since 1987. In the space of a few years, Arquitech has designed the main malls in Mexico, perfecting a model that accurately define the limit. This is the first major documentation of their work.

Estructuralismo y experimentación en la arquitectura de los 60 quiere mostrar la trascendencia de la modernidad en la cultura de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria durante el siglo XX, en particular desde el campo afecto de la arquitectura. Por ello valora las propuestas que, a partir de 1955, plantean la regeneración de los estilos dominantes, coincidiendo con la movilización de una nueva generación de arquitectos que se puso en marcha, en toda España, para crear, de manera activa, puentes con las corrientes internacionales de la segunda modernidad.

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...