El manifiesto del girasol

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 título muestra una selección de establecimientos que ofrecen una atención personal, confort material y espiritual. Hoteles excepcionales. Muestra su diseño, arquitectura, mobiliario y su lay out publicitario. Con planos de ubicación para encontrarnos con ellos.

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.

94.000 caracteres 105 fotos a color 25 fotos en b/n 20 ilustraciones 85 planos arquitectónicos. Construir sobre el agua puede parecer una idea revolucionaria, compleja técnicamente y que remite a imágenes futuristas de sofisticadas estructuras anfibias. Sin embargo, estamos hablando de una de las tipologías de arquitectura vernácula más antiguas y que más se ha extendido en nuestro planeta el palafito. Se trata de una construcción sobre el agua, levantada sobre pilotes, y que abarca un amplio espectro de composiciones, desde viviendas individuales hasta complejos asentamientos de...