Guía de viaje para un arquitecto

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,...

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 A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

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

En noviembre de 1985 el país y el mundo fueron conmovidos no solamente por el asalto, seguido de un gravísimo secuestro, sino también por el incendio del Palacio de Justicia, residencia de las altas cortes o supremos tribunales del órgano o rama judicial de Colombia, situado en la plaza de Bolívar de Bogotá. El asalto fue obra del grupo subversivo M-19, que pretendía que la Corte Suprema de Justicia le adelantara al presidente de la República "un juicio de responsabilidad política", y el incendio se produjo no se sabe si por acción de los guerrilleros o como consecuencia de la que...