Ciudad y arquitectura

Colombia Este libro aborda, de manera original y con un reconocido rigor metodológico, el estudio de las condiciones constructivas de la vivienda urbana que se promocionó en la ciudad de Manizales (centro occidente de Colombia) en un marco temporal de cinco años, haciendo uso de la llamada "minería de datos". Superando las miradas que sobre la vivienda ponen su foco de interés en aspectos puramente tipológicos o de ejecución de obra, el autor logra aquí establecer indicadores cuantitativos que relacionan claramente los atributos espaciales de las viviendas analizadas con sus...

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.

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,...

"La Secretaría de Cultura de la Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires seleccionó este libro y contrató su re-edición en homenaje al IV Centenario de la Fundación de la Ciudad por Juan de Garay."--Colophon