El sector de la construcción

Vitruvio, Bernini, Gaudí, Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe,... El Coliseo, El Escorial, San Pedro, La Sagrada Familia... Acérquese a la historia de la ingeniería y arte de construir edificios. Conozca a los más grandes arquitectos y sus edificios más emblemáticos. Desde Grecia y Roma, las grandes catedrales, la arquitectura civil y religiosa hasta la arquitectura de autor contemporánea. Conozca el arte y técnica de proyectar, diseñar y construir edificios, estructuras y espacios. Desde los primeros asentamientos del hombre primitivo, los primeros materiales y tecnologías para...

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.

Catalogue comprising 104 buildings in Monterrey that represent the best survivingexamples of the modern movement architecture. These examples of civil architecture constructedduring first half of the 20th century include Art Deco, Streamline and Modernist stylesLimitedavailability.

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,...