This book tries to show the dependency and servitude that late city architectures have had in regard to the integration of the contemporary capitalist process with the different urban space production systems. Fernandez Alba makes it clear that the need to recover the architectural testimony of ethical nature would reestablish the reasons to develop the city and to edificate architecture as the mental construction that will make 'that place that is to be built' feasible.

This work is an excellent guide to understanding architectural projects as the 'mediators between fantasy and reality'. The book tries to suggest that we should have attitudes that would let us imagine architecture that is healthier, one that could overcome the material condition and would dignify humanity's livable space.
Carlos Marcelo Herrera  

The book is a reflection and an analysis of a traditional housing alternative in Mexico City: burrow housing. More than being a chronological display of Mexican Domestic Architecture, the thesis tries to grasp the knowledge of this scheme with the intent of retaking, reinterpreting and rescuing its finest issues. This Thesis presents, as its premise, the architectural productions seen in our times yet based on tradition, thus representing the will of being in current times.
As the result of the commitment towards searching and exploring new housing options, A Study of Burrows: Tradition and Legacy is an effort that tries to contribute to the current architecture, the possibility of seeing it not only as a plastic solution, but as a search based on men's' values and needs such as spirituality. Bearing this purpose in mind, the thesis shows a retrospective of Mexican domestic architecture. Perhaps one of the main achievements this study has is exhibiting the spatial richness found in traditional burrow housing, traits that can be rescued and reinterpreted to offer new housing possibilities.
Norma Gpe. Martinez Arzate   

Samuel Ramos wrote the prologue and translated the works. He invites the reader to listen to Heidegger in what he calls thought turning around in a circle: "when poeticizing, truth is lighting and hides the entity. In essence, all art is Poetry (...) [And so], art is creation, creation is truth and truth is poetry, poetry is . . . truth".

Heidegger says that, "all art is similar to allowing the entity's truth to come forward, and as such, in essence is Poetry. Essence, over which art and the artist rest upon, is setting truth in operation".

Heidegger calls Holderlin the "poet's poet" and borrows five words from him to explain the essence of Poetry:

1. To Poetize: the most innocent of all operations.
2. Man has been granted the most dangerous of goods – language – to show what he is.
3. Man has experimented a lot.
   Has named many celestials
   Since we are a dialogue
   And we can hear one another.
   
4. However, what remains, poets restore.
   
5. Plenum of merits, but poetically that is how man inhabits this land.

Heidegger leads us to understand and to commit ourselves with architecture as if she were poetry also, where words, rhythms and material and space compositions shorten the spaces where we live; spaces that really and truly are inhabited when conceived poetically.
María Elena Hernández A.    

This anthropological book states the importance of bearing in mind the large variety of human groups life modes and different resemblances that exist. The book highlights the study of man through time as source of the grand pieces of works that have been produced related to the environment. Everything is based on cultural diversity and its implications.
In architectural-oriented fields, this book allows one to reflect about man and his relationship with others. It covers the diversity of cultural aspects that have been somewhat forgotten in our field.
Hernán Guerrero Figueroa