Viviendas unifamiliares

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

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,...

Las dimensiones humanas de los espacios interiores es el primer y principal texto de referencia con base antropométrica relativo a las normas de diseño, destinado al uso por parte de todos aquellos que están vinculados al proyecto y estudio detallado de interiores, incluyendo diseñadores industriales, de mobiliario, de interiores, arquitectos, constructores y estudiantes de diseño y arquitectura. La utilización de datos antropométricos debe entenderse como una herramienta básica del diseño en la adaptación física o interfase entre el cuerpo humano y los diversos componentes del...

Libro que hace un recorrido por la imagen de los panteones, desde la urbe romana hasta la actualidad, y su significado según el contexto de cada época.