Author: Miquel Adrià
Publisher: Editorial Rm
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The present edition graphically documents the design, construction and installationof the mega main public library Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" locatedin Mexico City. In 2001 a transformation project of the Biblioteca de México proposal had three main actions: the restoration of the La Ciudadela building, the construction of a more modern and larger building and the establishment of an interchange network between the public libraries in México, where the new library was to be the central node of a national network. The new library that includes surrounding botanical garden was a project by architect Alberto Kalach and was constructed adjacent to the Buenavista train station in the historical downtown area. A final section follows the artistic and technical process of artist Gabriel Orozco and his work team for the construction of the project Mátrix Móvil (Mobile Matrix), a suspended installation of graphite painting on a salvaged whale skeleton done in 2006 that hangs in the central area of the library.
Author: Miquel Adrià
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 176
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La presente edición gráficamente documenta el diseño, construcción e instalación de la biblioteca pública principal Biblioteca de México "José Vasconcelos" ubicada en la ciudad de Mexico. En el año 2001 el proyecto de transformación de la Biblioteca de México proponía tres acciones principales: la restauración del edificio de La Ciudadela, la construcción de un edificio moderno y más grande y el establecimiento de intercambio conectado entre las bibliotecas públicas de México, donde la nueva biblioteca sería el nodo central de una red nacional. La nueva biblioteca que incluye un jardín botánico circundante era un proyecto del arquitecto Alberto Kalach y fue construida adyacente a la estación de ferrocarril Buenavista en el centro histórico de la ciudad. Una sección final sigue el proceso artístico y técnico del artista Gabriel Orozco y su equipo de trabajo para la construcción del proyecto MátrixMóvil (Matriz Móvil), una instalación suspendida de grafito de un esquéleto de ballena terminado en el 2006 que cuelga en el área central de la biblioteca.
Author: Michelle Galindo
Publisher: teNeues
ISBN: 9783832791575
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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This guide offers an extensive trip to 72 of the most recent constructions in the pulsating Mexico City. Compiling outstanding architectural and interior design projects from Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon (Museo de Arte Popular), Taller de Arquitectura X/Alberto Kalach (Biblioteca Vasconcelos), TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten (Chopo Museum), as well as the newest hotels, restaurants, shops, and public projects. Informative texts, addresses and a map are included.
Author: Abby Clawson Low
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 1524762121
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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This stylish, gorgeously photographed guide to Mexico City will help you get the most out of this vibrant, culturally rich destination—or make you want to plan a trip! Vast and exciting, Mexico City has so much to offer, from museums to markets, architectural wonders to Aztec monuments. This thorough and practical travel guide includes everything you need to know to enjoy the lifestyle of Mexico City—its sights, sounds, and tastes. This Is Mexico City showcases the best museums (both traditional and off-the-beaten-path), old-school mercados, public art, food trucks, and much more. Organized by neighborhood, each section offers insider recommendations for every interest: For shoppers there are boutiques, galleries, and local artisan studios; for foodies, trendy bars, tiny taco restaurants, ice cream parlors abound. An incredible experience awaits! This Is Mexico City includes: Archaeological Sites • Architecture • Artists • Designers • For Kids • Galleries • Libraries • Monuments • Museums • Parks • Plazas • Public Art • Shopping • To Eat, Drink • To Stay
Author: Brian Norris
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498532357
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295
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Modern criminal justice institutions globally include police, criminal courts, and prisons. Prisons, unlike courts which developed out of an old aristocratic function and unlike police which developed out of an ancient posse or standing army function, are only about 200 years old and are humanitarian inventions. Prisons, defined as modern institutions that deprive the freedom of individuals who violate societies’ most basic norms in lieu of corporal or capital punishment, were near universal at the dawn of the 21st century and their use was expanding globally. The US alone spent $60 billion on prisons in 2014. Prison Bureaucracies addresses two fundamental questions. Do prisons in Christian, Hindu, and Muslim societies separated by space and level of socioeconomic development follow a common evolutionary path? Given that differences in prison structure and performance exist, what factors—resources, laws, leadership, historical accident, institutions, culture—account for differences? Based on more than 150 interviews conducted in ten international trips with prison administrators in 15 male state prisons in the US, Mexico, India, and Honduras, Norris provides ethnographic descriptions of prisons bureaucracies that are immediately recognizable as similar institutions, but that nonetheless possessed distinctive forms and developmental trajectories. Economists and political scientists have argued that incentives provided by institutions matter for good or bad public administration, and this is undeniable in the prisons of this study. But institutional incentives were one factor among many affecting the form and function of the prisons and prison systems of this study.
Author: Pan American Union
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: Ann Temkin
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707629
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: Kelley Tatro
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819580953
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Love and Rage is a deeply ethnographic account of punk in Mexico City as it is lived and practiced, connecting the sounds of punk music to different styles of political action. Through compelling first-person accounts, ethnographer Kelley Tatro shows that punk is more than music. It is a lifestyle choice that commits scene participants to experimentation with anarchist politics. Key to that process is the concept of autogestión ("self-management"), a term with deep history in local leftist politics. In detailed vignettes, grounded in historical, social, and political frames, the book shows how punk-scene sounds and practices foster autogestión through intensely affective experiences, understood as manifestations of love and rage. Drawing on the history of anarchism in Mexico City, as well as social movement scholarship, Love and Rage details the pleasures and problems of using music as a tool for creating an autonomous politics. Includes 25 photographs from photographer Yaz "Punk" Núñez.
Author: Celia Esther Arredondo Zambrano
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000858774
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures – academic, social status, economic/political, gender, and postcolonial – and by interviews and analysis of 13 key Mexican architects. These include Luis Barragán, José Villagrán García, Juan O’Gorman, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Agustín Hernández, Abraham Zabludovsky, Carlos Mijares, Ricardo Legorreta, Juan José Díaz Infante, Enrique Norten, Alberto Kalach, Javier Sordo Madaleno and Clara de Buen. Although the five power structures framed what was built, the testimony of these Mexican architects helps us to recognize and discover subtleties and nuances. Their views thereby shed light on what contributed to making Mexican Modernist architecture so distinctive globally. Even if these architects were not always aware of the power structures, their projects nonetheless supported discrimination, marginalization and subjugation. In that sense the book also reveals the extent to which these power structures are still present today. The Making of Mexican Modernist Architecture’s uniqueness lies in uncovering the remarkable buildings that arose amid the five power structures while at the same time questioning their validity. It also voices the urgent need today for a new kind of architecture outside these boundaries. The book is essential reading for anyone studying Mexican and Latin American architecture.
Author: William W. Rasor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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