Fundación Herdez
Subtitle: una restauración ejemplar
Publisher: Fundación Herdez
Published: 2015
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9786078172313
Subjects: History; Buildings; Remodeling for other use; Architecture; Conservation and restoration; Buildings, structures; Fundación Herdez (Mexico)
Description: The book documents the process of restoration and recovery of the colonial building which today houses one of the most important bibliographical and newspaper collections on food in Mexico: the Herdez Foundation. The authors belong to various educational and cultural institutions like the UNAM, the Proyecto Templo Mayor, amongst others. This document also is a tribute to its founder Enrique Hernández-Pons and to Jaime Muñoz de Baena, its first director, as well as for Ph. D. in architecture Luis Ortiz Macedo, exemplary figure in the history of architecture in Mexico.
Notes: "In memoriam Luis Ortiz Macedo (1933-2013)"--Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-135).
Table of contents: title: Reflexiones entorno a la restauración del edificio de la Fundación Herdez / Luis Ortiz Macedo; title: Ruinas sobre ruinas: de los aposentos de Tezcatlipoca a las aulas de la Universidad / Leonardo López Luján; title: El edificio de Seminario 18, hoy sede de la Fundación Herdez / Ricardo I. Prado Núñez; title: La defensa y la gestión del patrimonio histórico y artístico del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México / Mónica Cejudo Collera y Fundación Herdez; title: La creación de un sitio con vocación social, educativa y cultural / Lorenzo Rocha Cito.