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The states of Northern Mexico—Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur—have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or unknown. To make this architecture better known to a wide professional, academic, and public audience, this book presents the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico from the country’s emergence as a modern nation in 1821 to the present day. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps...
A 15 años de su nacimiento, la Cátedra Blanca CEMEX se ha consolidado como una referencia para quienes hoy en día se capacitan como futuros arquitectos en México. Se trata de un curso intensivo, de alto rendimiento, que forma a los alumnos con una visión del impacto que puede lograrse a través del diseño arquitectónico. Desde el Tecnológico de Monterrey y la Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño, se celebra con la publicación de este libro la gran aportación que la Cátedra Blanca ha significado para las numerosas generaciones de arquitectos que han sido partícipes de este espacio y agradecemos enormemente la disposición, la energía y el talento sumados por cada uno de sus actores. Sin duda, esta Cátedra ha sido y será una referencia de formación y creación de la práctica colaborativa de la arquitectura.
Las obras de Landa García Landa publicadas en este libro son una magnífica muestra de lo mejor de la arquitectura mexicana actual. Este grupo de arquitectos de Monterrey, formado por Agustín Landa, Roberto García e Ignacio Landa, ha realizado en pocos años una obra ejemplar, sustentada en el oficio y el método, desde su condición funcional y didáctica. Su trabajo destaca por una arquitectura moderna “sin estilo”, aunque fácilmente reconocible y enormemente variada que abarca un amplio espectro de tipologías, escalas y funciones. A través de 18 proyectos construidos más 17 proyectos y obras en construcción, se muestra el trabajo de este joven despacho. Tres textos escritos por Humberto Ricalde, Edward R. Burian y Miquel Adrià se intercalan a lo largo del libro.
a continuous visual narrative runs through minh t's images, inspired by architecture, nature and geometry; they are thought provoking and romantic, as if each image is part of a prevailing fairytale. with a background in graphic design and architecture, his work nevertheless eschews an overly technical approach and instead runs with feeling, fantasy and emotion. through instagram he has managed to enchant audiences from across the globe, including notable publications, fashion houses and fellow photographers, translating his social media profile from casual hobby to an internationally acclaimed aesthetic. - isabel carmichael
Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across more than 130 countries, and over time. The indicators are used to analyze economic outcomes and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. Topics in Doing Business in 2005 include: Licensing and Inspections: Having registered a business, now what? In most countries, firms face a myriad of sector specific licenses as well as inspections to enforce compliance. The Doing Business database construc...
Over the course of twenty years, acclaimed studio Miró Rivera Architects has produced an innovative, refined, and imaginative body of work—both modern and respectful of time-honored building traditions—that embodies the particularities of place and blurs the line between art and architecture. The firm’s diverse practice weaves together a commitment to craftsmanship with a honed sense of materiality and space to create structures at once elegant, controlled, and pleasant to inhabit. In all, Miró Rivera Architects has won more than one hundred design awards and represented American architecture at exhibitions worldwide. The first from the firm, this volume provides critical insight int...
In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes. The book is highly visual. As well as providing a chronological account of the movement, each chapter also has a special feature on the major works of a given period. The first up-to-date narrative of Post-Modern Architecture - other major books on the subject were written 20 years ago. An accessible narrative that will appeal to students who are new to the subject, as well as those who can remember its heyday in the 70s and 80s.
Here is a rich selection of short, meaningful excerpts from the writings of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. Forming a collection of landmarks along the way to spiritual peace, each paragraph in this book has been selected for the specific help and guidance it can bring in helping to make life worth living. These brief, perceptive selections from thirty of Bishop Sheen's books reveal a brilliant mind at work as it considers the affairs of men, both spiritually and temporally. Love, hate, frustration, passion, virtue, wisdom, peace--all that goes into the complexity of man's life on earth is considered with rare sensitivity and frequently penetrating humor.