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A detailed study of the popular architecture in the Calchiques Valley region of Argentina, comprising parts of the Salta, Tucumán, and Catamarca provinces.

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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,...

Reedición conjunta en un único volumen de los libros Housing y Singular Housing anteriormente publicados por Actar, con la incorporación de algunos proyectos recientes. El libro se enfoca en diversas propuestas residenciales recientes, a la vez que ofrece diversos y sugerentes análisis la vivienda unifamiliar. La primera parte, con una vocación más teórica, se ha centrado en la exploración de las "dinámicas de proyecto" susceptibles de generar sistemas formales nuevos relacionados con los fenómenos de cambio que experimenta actualmente la ciudad contemporánea. La segunda presenta...