Islands

El libro reúne un total de 32 textos de exposiciones realizadas por famosos teóricos y críticos del arte contemporáneo internacional, en el período 1980-1995. Incluye además un prólogo general y datos biográficos de los autores.

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,...

The transformation of public space in Mexico City through the years are evident, the population growth and its demands has resulted in a complex network of resources necessary for the coexistence and development in the city. Just to illustrate this phenomenon from one Delegation, Coyoacán, to size the number of factors that shaped the urban environment of this century. To further explore the topic, the study is divided into three distinct areas of the delegation and is exemplified in the history of the creation of these spaces through maps and graphs that they add images and allowing the...

Este libro analiza el legado de esta corriente en la arquitectura neoyorquina realizada durante los primeros años del siglo XXI y muestra una cuidada selección de proyectos acompañados de un cuestionario dirigido a sus creadores, que reflejan en sus respuestas el espíritu de la arquitectura de la ciudad.

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...