Amazigh Octubre 2022

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 trabajo, «Arquitectura y urbanismo en Iberoamérica», aspira a replantear una serie de problemas y contradicciones que se han suscitado en los estudios sobre la realidad americana. Mientras que las historias del arte tradicionales suelen ceñirse al estudio de las obras singulares, emergentes de un contexto cultural más amplio el cual se identifica justamente por la excepción, el autor ha preferido introducir, junto al sistema de desarrollo cronológico y geográfico, una aproximación adicional de carácter tipológico-funcional que permite abordar temas marginales como la...

For the first time ever a monograph dedicated to the temporary projects and personal designs created by world-renowned architect Enric Miralles.A quick perusal of the pages makes it patently clear that for Miralles the word temporary could never be synonymous with minor. From the design of the pergolas in the Olympic Village in Barcelona to the changing sets of an Opera that premiered in his own studio each work is a celebration of space, time and movement. 16 projects are featured.