Arquitectura y urbanismo

Este libro pretende rendir homenaje a Fernando Chueca, antiguo catedrático de Historia de la Arquitectura y del Urbanismo de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. El libro fue publicado por primer vez en 1947 como resultado de la participación del autor en un concurso nacional para dar solución al crucero de la catedral de Valladolid y de sus posteriores investigaciones sobre el tema. Está dividido en dos grandes partes, la primera histórica, sobre la construcción del templo y la segunda de estudio del monumento, ambas ilustradas con fotografías y planos.

Homage dedicated to the IIDEHA and its contribution to the development of the operative architecture for design in Argentina. 9 multidisciplinary essays from the academic seminars on subjects that influenced Argentinean modern architecture from 1957-2007, plus 11 essays on leading architects that include: Jaime Roca (1899-1970); Abdulio Bruno Giudici; Marina Waisman; Iván Hernández Lagua; Francisco Bullrich. Plus an important documentary appendice filled with information.

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,...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...