Buenos Aires

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. These topical developments have been taken into consideration. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind...

Leonardo Rucabado Gómez (Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, 1875-1918), arquitecto e ingeniero, se formó en Barcelona con los maestros del Modernismo, y desarrolló su arquitectura en Vizcaya, Cantabria y Madrid, utilizando una variedad de estilos, que después negará para concluir en el «Regionalismo». Ha sido considerado simplemente como un arquitecto del «regionalismo montañés», limitando su alcance, pero fue un hombre conocedor de la cultura europea y capaz de elaborar y presentar al debate público una propuesta general para la arquitectura española, en paralelo a lo que otros hacían ...

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,...

Este libro expone una propuesta metodológica para el análisis del paisaje urbano, que permite caracterizar física y visualmente el territorio de una ciudad, con una aplicación en una zona representativa, en este caso, de Mexicali, Baja California.