Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

A través de los croquis que componen este libro, su autor, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, no solo nos enseña a mirar la ciudad de Valparaíso con otros ojos, sino que además deja en evidencia su cariño por el puerto. La obsesión y la dedicación por recorrer los edificios, plazas y cerros queda representada en trazos que, en suma, componen la perspectiva de su autor y la mirada crítica que pone sobre ellos en sus anotaciones. En definitiva, se expone al dibujo como herramienta de observación. Con un registro que data desde los inicios de los años setenta, la representación y el análisis de ...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

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,...