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Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house concept - that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure - was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses and became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright’s designs for office and public buildings were equally groundbreaking and unique. From...

El libro La cumbre urbana, de las Carmelitas Descalzas a la casa del Corregidor es el segundo volumen de la serie Cuenca, ciudad barroca, editada en colaboración por el Consorcio de la Ciudad de Cuenca y la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Prosigue pues los objetivos propuestos en el tomo anterior. Recoge lo esencial de la historiografía precedente, identifica problemas no resueltos y añade una visión personal de los mismos, adentrándose en parcelas del conocimiento no tratadas hasta la fecha. Atentos a la complejidad del fenómeno arquitectónico, se incluyen aquí los aspectos de...

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

The shopping mall is one of the typologies most succesfully developed in the twentieth century. The work of the Mexican architural firm Grupo Arquitech has ventured into this fertile territory. Directed by Juan José Sánchez since 1987. In the space of a few years, Arquitech has designed the main malls in Mexico, perfecting a model that accurately define the limit. This is the first major documentation of their work.