Vicente Galicia

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,...

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.

El fin de la arquitectura expone detalladamente de que manera los caminos conceptuales y formales desarrollados por el diseño y la arquitectura contemporánea auspician su propia desaparición y van en contra de las ideas que hasta hoy manejábamos para hablar de lo arquitectonico. Esta desaparición es resultado de diferentes posturas que proponen la fragmentación, la desmaterialización y la estructuraciín biomórfica como conceptos principales del hacer constructivo, esquivando los principios básicos que conforman la idea la arquitectura desde su nacimiento hasta la modernidad.

AN ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED FLEXI-COVERED GUIDE TO THE MOST FASHIONABLE HOTELS IN ITALY THAT WILL BE MOST APPRECIATED BY TRAVELERS AND DESIGN PROFESSIONALS.