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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,...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Ver la arquitectura, entenderla y sentirla no es algo inmediato. Requiere un aprendizaje. Este libro es, ante todo, la apertura a un vocabulario, a un conjunto de términos a través de los cuales conceptualizamos y hacemos comunicable la experiencia de la arquitectura. Si, como dijera Wittgenstein, el conocimiento empieza en las palabras, entonces un libro de iniciación a la arquitectura es un libro que trata de glosar, de dotar de contenido ciertas palabras clave con las que, como si de una herramienta se tratara, hacer posible el montaje y el desmontaje de nuestra experiencia de la...

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.