Zumthor in Mexico: Swiss Architects in Mexico, Paperback - Peter Zumthor

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2017, as part of the MEXTR POLI Festival, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor (born 1943) was invited to Mexico City to pa...

Peter Zumthor's passion is the creation of buildings with architectural atmosphere. But how can one actually set out to achieve it? In nine short, ...

Contributor(s): Author: Peter ZumthorAuthor: Mari LendingWhile he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in ...

Publisher: BirkhauserAuthor(s): Peter ZumthorIllustration(s): 19 Illustrations, color; 14 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 76Publicat...

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DescriptionSince the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered. Failed assassinations and threats have silenc...

Profiles the voices of those who fight against inequalities of care even while they form alliances with the systems that perpetuate them. Lydia Dix...

Reducere. CONTENTS Corasmin and The Parrots Walk to Huayapa The Mozo Market Day Indians and Entertainment The Dance of the Sprouting Corn The Hopi Snake Danc...

Reducere. Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated ...

Contributor(s): Author: James OlesThis new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first c...

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the national level, neoliberal h...

True crime meets political thriller in an explosive expose of US meddling in MexicoPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Rob McKenzieIllustration(s): 11...

Reducere. Rebecca Janzen brings a unique applied understanding of religion to bear on analysis of Mexican cinema from the Golden Age of the 1930s onward. Unh...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Pilar DomingoNumber of pages: 202Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

A monumental contribution to the study of systemic violence and neoliberalism in Mexico.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAuthor(s): Hepzibah Munoz Martine...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Harry Leonard SawatzkyIllustration(s): 1 frontisp.Number of pages: 410Publication date: 2021Dim...

Reducere. Colonia Juarez, one of the two remaining Mormon Colonies in Mexico, has existed and prospered for one hundred and twenty-five years. During that ti...

In Citizens of Scandal, Vanessa Freije explores the causes and consequences of political scandals in Mexico from the 1960s through the 1980s. Traci...

Why have Latin American democracies proven unable to confront the structural inequalities that cripple their economies and stymie social mobility? ...

Reducere. ``It all happened because of Elvis Presley.`` Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of Mesoamerica, then keep reading... Four captivating manuscripts in one book: Olmecs: A...

Reducere. DescriptionDid you know that the Olmecs might have been the first people to introduce writing? The first people that managed to elevate themselves ...

In this unique work, the authors explore both the historic origins of the Day of the Dead and its colorful present-day celebrations in Mexico and t...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts written by Emperor Maximilian and his wife of their lives and reign in Mexico *Includes online resources and ...

In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Maga a considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcu...

Reducere. In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the...

Contributor(s): Author: Guadalupe Correa-CabreraThe rapid growth of organized crime in Mexico and the government's response to it have driven an un...

This unusual book is more than a guide; it is a showcase for the remarkable beauty and diversity of New Mexico's mountains. A profile of each major...

Miracles, signs of divine presence and intervention, have been esteemed by Christians, especially Catholic Christians, as central to religious beli...

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial M...

Reducere. Grandparents are our teachers, our allies, and a great source of love. They supply endless stories that connect us to a past way of life and to peo...

Reducere. Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the authors experience as a m...