Book Description
Wallpaper* City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.
Author : Editors of Wallpaper Magazine
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 2008-06-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780714847474
Wallpaper* City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.
Author : WALLPAPER
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781838662042
Author : Phaidon Press
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Marie Elena Martinez
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780714869575
The fast-track guide for the smart traveller
Author : Editors of Wallpaper Magazine
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780714860985
Wallpaper* City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.
Author : Abby Clawson Low
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1524762113
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 : Editors of Wallpaper Magazine
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780714862972
Wallpaper* City Guides are a ruthlessly-researched, design-conscious guide, for the discerning traveller who wants to come away with a true taste of the best a city has to offer.
Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1524748897
At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.
Author : Cristina Alonso
Publisher : Hardie Grant
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781741176452
In 2016 The New York Times listed Mexico City as the number one place to go in the world. With nearly 40 millions tourists visiting the country in 2017, tourism to Mexico is booming. And despite past safety concerns, the country's capital has undergone something of a cultural renaissance and is now both an enchanting and world-class travel destination. Modern Living in Mexico City is your comprehensive guide to navigate the city's seemingly endless cultural attractions, eclectic food and drinks scene, shops, galleries and legendary markets. From major sights to recently opened venues that showcase the city's young and vibrant energy, author Cristina Alonso will ensure you make the most of your visit and then be eager to return to the most progressive city in Latin America.
Author : Kathryn E. O'Rourke
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0822981629
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico's unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country's architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted. Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers' park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragan, Kathryn O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.