Proteccion y seguridad contra incendios

Como en el texto homónimo de Julio Cortázar este libro ofrece lecturas alternativas dependiendo del orden. La razón primera de su publicación es la recuperación de tres textos escritos a modo de prólogo para otro libro dedicado a una de las obras maestras de Eleuterio Población Knappe, el edificio «Beatriz». Son tres pequeños rubíes que decantan la experiencia y los saberes de tres importantes arquitectos en el panorama español del último tercio del siglo XX y de los primeros años del XXI. Cada uno de ellos merece un análisis atento y pormenorizado y puede leerse...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

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,...