Castillos y fortificaciones de Galicia

It was in his home in Oak Park that Frank Lloyd Wright made his first contributions to the Modern movement. In 1889 he designed the first part of the house, in 1895 he added to it for his wife, Catherine, and their family, and in 1898 for his architectural practice. The entire building was a learning laboratory of modern architecture. While not a Prairie School house, it led to the development of the Prairie School. Wrights constant changes to this complex paralleled the evolution of his early architectural work and career. There, with his young assistants, he rethought the plan, spaces,...

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, elaborado por los profesores D. Carlos González-Bravo, D. Jesús Coronado, D. Pedro Leguina y D. Raúl Rodríguez, en colaboración con alumnos del Departamento, describe el paisaje arquitectónico de ciudades que destacan por sus impresionantes edificios, como Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia o Nueva York. El profesor D. Carlos González-Bravo, Director de la Escuela de Arquitectura, nos descubre la intención de este proyecto: "De eso trata esta guía de viajes, de tocar arquitectura, de verla de cerca, de recorrerla, saborearla y procesar aquello que algunos han denominado la ...

Vitruvio, Bernini, Gaudí, Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe,... El Coliseo, El Escorial, San Pedro, La Sagrada Familia... Acérquese a la historia de la ingeniería y arte de construir edificios. Conozca a los más grandes arquitectos y sus edificios más emblemáticos. Desde Grecia y Roma, las grandes catedrales, la arquitectura civil y religiosa hasta la arquitectura de autor contemporánea. Conozca el arte y técnica de proyectar, diseñar y construir edificios, estructuras y espacios. Desde los primeros asentamientos del hombre primitivo, los primeros materiales y tecnologías para...