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Whether we live in a house in the country or in a city home, a terrace is an increasingly cherished luxury that opens living space out to the exterior and creates more direct contact with nature. Spectacular and of varied design, some are on the roofs, some are fitted with a solarium, while others boast a garden. Over the course of 136 pages and with more than 140 spectacular photos in colour, Terrace Design offers a complete selection of terraces set in the country, by the sea and in the city. An original compilation that will inspire a new terrace or refurbishment and that offers valuable...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Presenta este libro un recorrido histórico (desde la época imperial hasta el siglo XX) rastreando y documentando las huellas de lo hispánico en Roma. Emperadores y reyes como Trajano, como Carlos V, o como Alfonso XIII, escritores como Cervantes, como Valle-Inclán, o como Rafael Alberti, y pintores como Velázquez se asoman a las páginas de esta obra revelando el ayer y el hoy de la presencia histórica de España en Roma. Al trabajo de minuciosa investigación historiográfica se suma una amplia colección de fotos, en su mayor parte inéditas, que ofrecen la imagen plástica de la...

A multidisciplinary collaboration that explores and documents the transcultural and urban transformations of the town of San Juan del Rio in the State of Querétaro.