As Sigfried Giedion says in the book space, Time and architecture, there is a big problem in our contemporary culture: the widespread disregard for the immediate past makes buildings of great importance to be demolished without regard. There is no particular interest in what is being destroyed because there is no valuation of the cultural products closest to us, unfortunately, the case of the Chrysler...
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In analyzing the history of Mexico City and its relationship with commercial activity, it can be seen that the challenges and commercial opportunities were forming the current city and continue to determine part of its constructive evolution. However, at present it seems that this dynamic has gotten out of control, because it seems that the public and family spaces have been replaced by public places...
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As part of the project to promote great virtues of Japanese culture to other countries, the Japan House São Paulo opened its doors in Brazil with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This cultural enclosure is the first of its kind in the world and was designed by the architect Kengo Kuma. To Japan and Brazil unite a common history that goes...
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An emblematic, iconic and innovative building of the Seventies. It was at the time the materialization of the ideals of a company: efficiency, functionality and effectiveness. Now, more than 30 years later, his story continues along with his architects ' dream of someday seeing the original project complete. The economic policies of the 1970s opened the way in the country to a considerable increase...
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Opuntia Ficus-indica, or Common nopal, is a species native to Mesoamerica whose multiple applications and properties have been used in architecture since the pre-Hispanic era. Recently, several working groups in our country are investigating other possible promising uses for nopal in the construction industry. The use of natural materials in the construction is a millenarian inheritance, and its development in Mexico originates in the...
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To assess the architectural heritage of the twentieth century it is necessary to know its history. Many constructions of the so-called functionalism or modernism are in bad condition, and several of them will certainly disappear in the coming decades. The Hotel Balneario de San José Purua is proof of the above. After being one of the preferred hotels in the interior of the Republic for...
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With an auditorium for 450 people, a recording studio and an eight-room museum, the recently inaugurated music palace in Yucatán, has the mission to conserve and promote Mexican music. "Music has been and continues to be sound and number at a time, acoustics and mathematics, and this is based on its universality." Phrase by Iannis Xenakis, musician, architect and civil engineer fundamental character who...
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The work was recognized in the finalists of the category commercial/institutional architecture of more than 1000 m2 in the contest of the Canadian magazine of Design and Architecture Azure, where participated 997 architects and designers of 46 countries. Violence against women in Mexico has reached epidemic levels. This situation persists, according to the UN, despite the approval of severe laws to curb it and...
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The Autonomous University of Zacatecas works in the improvement of semiconductor materials of broad bandwidth to, besides providing the characteristic of the transparency to a solar cell, that this is a means to improve its efficiency. Looking for transparency in solar cells is a challenge that scientists from various parts of the world have addressed in recent years. The main objective is to increase...
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A luxury restaurant in a restored Henequen hacienda is the Ixi'im seal, recognized as the most beautiful restaurant in the world by UNESCO, who last May 15th awarded the International Prix Versailles Award "thanks to its exquisite integration of Architecture and interior design in a project of excellence. " The word restaurant comes from the French "restaurant", and this from the Latin "restore", repair,...
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