Apuntes de obra. Construcciones para arquitectos TOMO 1

✓ Por fin está disponible el primer libro completo sobre la historia de los templarios. En este libro ponemos por escrito la verdadera historia de los templarios, sin perdernos en leyendas y medias verdades. Los templarios eran una orden monástica dedicada al uso de las armas para garantizar la seguridad y la libertad de la peregrinación cristiana por la Tierra Prometida en la época de las Cruzadas. No contra los musulmanes como no cristianos, sino como verdugos de la seguridad de los peregrinos. Fueron los salvadores de la cristiandad durante varios siglos, hasta que, por envidia y...

This new monograph presents the architecture of Richard Holzer, whose long and productive career has shaped the urban fabric of Panama. He is the architect behind many Panamanian landmarks including the Avesa Building, the Continental Hotel, the Credicor

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.