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"Decidido impulsor de la línea curva en el diseño arquitectónico y pionero en el uso del hormigón armado, Oscar Niemeyer fue el creador-constructor de una obra inmensa que recorre y define, inventándola, la arquitectura del siglo XX en Brasil y deja su impronta -la curva sensual, natural, incitante- en el mundo. Sus escritos aquí parcialmente reunidos reflejan esa constante preocupación y dejan traslucir, a manera de preceptiva intermitente, su voluntad de crear una arquitectura que fuera como esas "rachas de felicidad" que Borges definió con tanta sutileza y precisión, una...

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 libro expone una propuesta metodológica para el análisis del paisaje urbano, que permite caracterizar física y visualmente el territorio de una ciudad, con una aplicación en una zona representativa, en este caso, de Mexicali, Baja California.

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...