Entornos Vitales

A serious study and analysis that addresses the symbolism, ornamentation, and history one of Mexico's historic architectural monuments, the Chapel of Loreto.

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

Elementos de ordenacion urbana, publicado por vez primera en 1980, pretendre proporcionar un facil acceso a los conceptos e instrumentos de la ordenacion urbanistica. El balance de sus tres ediciones anteriores ha sido plenamente satisfactorio en este sentido. El contenido del libro se articula en tres partes: en la primera se ponen de relieve las caracteristicas del proceso urbanistico, en la segunda se explican la naturaleza y el alcance de la ordenacion urbanistica y en la tercera se tratan los aspectos instrumentales de dicha ordenacion. Puesto que la presente es una edicion facsimil de...

A detailed study that examines the architecture of Fernando Martínez Sanabria (b. Spain, lived and worked in Colombia since 1938- d. 1991) throughout one of his most recognized buildings: the building of the Caja Agraria (1965) located in Barranquilla. The author examines this commercial project from its initial design process and proposes an analytical view of the building through its anatomical construction systems of light and semi-darkness developed by architect Martínez Sanabria.