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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.

Monographic edition dedicated to one of the most noted disciples of José Villagrán García and Ignacio Díaz Morales. Architec Nafarrate's works are characteristic for the use of natural illumination and ventilation and the strong importance he gives to the environment. Some of his most recognized works include: Residential complex "Los Parques", Hotel "Las Hadas", and the "Twin Dolphin" in Baja California.

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

La Sagrada Familia es el monumento más visitado de Barcelona, más de tres millones de personas la visitan cada año. Son los mecenas anónimos que con el dinero de las entradas hacen posible el trabajo de 450 profesionales: arquitectos, aparejadores, carpinteros, picapedreros, modelistas, escultores, herreros y otros especialistas que acuden cada día al templo. Tras los andamios de la Sagrada Familia da voz a algunos de estos trabajadores que comparten sus jornadas laborales junto a turistas, feligreses, estudiantes de arquitectura o simples admiradores de la obra más conocida de Antoni...