Arquitectura de la ciudad moderna

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,...

The transformation of public space in Mexico City through the years are evident, the population growth and its demands has resulted in a complex network of resources necessary for the coexistence and development in the city. Just to illustrate this phenomenon from one Delegation, Coyoacán, to size the number of factors that shaped the urban environment of this century. To further explore the topic, the study is divided into three distinct areas of the delegation and is exemplified in the history of the creation of these spaces through maps and graphs that they add images and allowing the...

Este segundo número de la Revista Arkhé, transita la problemática del diseño bio-ambiental y el hábitat sustentable a través de la mirada propositiva de un abanico de voces calificadas. Los temas que involucran a la ciudad contemporánea y su entorno hacen foco en el desarrollo sustentable e invitan al lector a compartir sus páginas, en las que encontrará artículos de investigaciones sobre la valoración del paisaje y el uso del espacio público; sistemas constructivos que colaboran al ahorro energético y al confort. Por otra parte, se comentan experiencias profesionales con miradas ...

El llibre ens explica com, a partir dúna geometria simple i dún desenvolupament complex, seń fa láplicació constructiva a cadascuna de les parts del Temple. Aquest no és un llibre més sobre Gaudí, sinó que és el llibre que ens explica les claus de la modulació geomètrica de Gaudí, és a dir, el vocabulari per a entendre i prosseguir la Sagrada Família.