Fray Antonio de San José Pontones

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.

¿Cómo transforma un habitante común su casa en su hogar? ¿Qué elementos, mecanismos o acciones empleamos para construir la casa vivida? ¿Cuál es el significado de habitar?... Intentaremos responder estas preguntas complejas, poniendo a la luz el sentir de un grupo de habitantes del siglo XXI, que han sido interpelados mediante imágenes de la casa. Partiendo de la premisa de la capacidad de hablar de la fotografía sobre el habitar, confrontamos a los habitantes con series de imágenes de interiores domésticos, sobre las que se elaboran distintas encuestas y les invitamos también a...

Learn the standards of effective design and installation for building systems using the performance requirements set by the industry-leading source for standards: the International Code Council?. Now available in Spanish to recognize an increasingly diverse workforce, the 2003 International Building Code - Spanish Edition offers users comprehensive coverage and time-tested safety concepts so they are well-prepared for successful, safe work in the field. In addition, structural as well as fire- and life-safety provisions are also included and span a range of topics, including means of egress,...

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...