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Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

Este livro reúne cinco projectos de arquitectura de habitação do arquitecto Ricardo Vieira de Melo. As fotografias de exterior e interior apresentam detalhes excepcionais. Prefácio de João Rapagão.

La eleccion de los materiales y los elementos de construccion que se deben utilizar en una obra es una tarea cada vez mas compleja. La arquitectura ofrece una gama muy amplia de posibilidades entre las que escoger. El conocimiento de las propiedades de estos materiales es imprescindible si se quiere hacer una eleccion objetiva. Este libro analiza las propiedades tecnicas de dichos materiales (de la masa, del estado de la materia), mecanicas, reologicas y termicas, y su relacion con los fenomenos ondulatorios, aparentes, temporales y de duracion; sus costes, sus repercusiones sobre la salud y...

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...