Diario-Boceto

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Esta guía visual contiene el vocabulario empleado en arquitectura, dirigido no sólo a arquitectos y aparejadores sino especialmente a estudiantes y no iniciados en la materia que sienten inquietud por la arquitectura. Cada definición aparece acompañada de una ilustración o ejemplo visual en forma de diagramas y ejemplos fotográficos, sobre el tema tratado, asimismo, agrupa información complementaria acerca de los diferentes contextos. Encontramos, más de 250 palabras muy comunes en las áreas principales de la arquitectura y el diseño arquitectónico así como términos de interés...

Brief overview of ObregÑn's (b. Mexico) work as one of the most influencial Mexican born architects of the 20th century.

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 A work mostly based on unpublished sources.