Arquitectura de la ciudad moderna

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Muestra el motivo, cómo y con qué efectos los materiales más avanzados consiguen transformar el modo de vida.Se analiza la ciencia en transformación empleada, que se basa en tecnologías de fibra, sostenibilidad, biomimetismo, nanotecnología e innovación textil. Indispensable para todos los diseñadores de interiores, industriales, gráficos y de moda, para cualquiera relacionado con el packaging, el diseño, la arquitectura o el medio ambiente, y también para artistas y escultores. Los materiales son el fundamento de lo que significa innovar en el diseño del siglo XXI. Las sustancias ...

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...