Sagrada Familia s. XXI

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.

Este libro recopila una serie de conversaciones y reflexiones surgidas a partir del trabajo realizado en la Escuela de Arquitectura de Alicante durante los cursos 2009-2010 y 2010-2011, que a su vez partían de una investigación llevada a cabo en el curso académico 2008-2009 en la Graduate School of Design (GSD) de la Harvard University y que se habían planteado como una serie de tres años de trabajo académico con nuevos modelos urbanos que integraban metodologías de diseño digital con cuestiones ecológicas. La serie fue preparada para abarcar escenarios muy distintos, pero mantenían ...

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 ...