Title: Mario Schjetnam :
Authors: Schjetnan, Mario,; Lizárraga Sánchez, Salvador,
Date: 2017.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Facultad de Arquitectura,
Physical description: 471 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language: Spanish
LC classification: S
Abstract: Through 14 urban projects developed in Mexico in the last 40 years, pioneer landscape architect Mario Schjetnam G. (Mexico City 1945) co-founder of the interdisciplinary firm Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU) in Mexico City celebrates 40 years of integrating the social, aesthetic, environmental and urban aspects in designs where the building is a subordinate to the landscap.
Contents: Presentación = Preface / Marcos Mazari Hirisrt -- Prólogo. Una herencia mexicana revitalizada = Foreword. A Mexican heritage reinvigorated / Marc Treib -- Introducción. Todos venimos de Africa = Introduction. We all come from Africa / Mario Schjetnam -- Ensayos = Essays -- Mario Schjetnam y la polisemia de las escalas = Mario Schjetnam and the polysemy of the scales / Antonio Plá -- Paisaje y memoria en la obra de Mario Schjetnam = Landscape and memory in the work of Mario Schjetnan / Peter Krieger -- Las aptitudes del arquitecto paisajista = The apptitudes of the landscape architect / Pedro Camarena Berruecos -- Reciclar la ciudad hacia un urbanismo postindustrial = Recycling the city through postindustrial urbanism -- La recuperación del patrimonio, hiistoria y precedentes = The restoration of heritage, memory and history -- Creación y reconquista del espacio público = Creation and recuperation of public space -- Plazas, fuentes y jardines = Public squares, fountains and gardens -- Diseño urbano = Urban design -- Una arquitectura ambiental = Environmental architecture -- Epílogo. El valor de lo universal = Afterword. The value of the universal / Jimena Martignoni -- Apéndice = Appendix.
Subject headings (LCSH): Grupo de Diseño Urbano (Mexico); Landscape architecture--Mexico--Designs and plans.; Landscape architecture--Mexico--History.; Parks--Mexico--Designs and plans.; Parks--Mexico--History.; Schjetnam, Mario, 1945-; Schjetnan, Mario, 1945-; Urban landscape architecture--Mexico--Designs and plans.; Urban landscape architecture--Mexico--History.