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Una buena guia que recoge todos los lugares interesantes de la ciudad de Ubeda, que hace historia de la misma y esta ilustrada con fotografias de los edificios y lugares relevantes.

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,...

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...

La arquitectura doméstica cartagenera de los períodos colonial y republicano ha sido objeto de estudios que, separadamente, han mostrado sus características particulares. Un estudio comparado de tipologías de vivienda de los dos períodos no se había realizado previamente. Este libro presenta los resultados de una investigación orientada específicamente a entender las semejanzas y diferencias entre las viviendas de esos dos períodos, dirigida por el arquitecto Francisco Angulo Guerra. Él y su equipo de colaboradores desarrollaron un minucioso trabajo entre 2005 y 2007 con el apoyo de ...