Arquitectura y envejecimiento

Barcelona 1992-2004 offers a selection of chronologically arranged projects that provide an overview of the period that commences with the 1992 Olympic Games and culminates in the huge cultural event that is the Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. The selection has focused in particular on projects involving the city’s openness to the sea and those which have managed to adapt to its existing residential fabric. Presented as separate chapters are projects for new high-rise buildings and schemes for the 22@ plan and the Universal Forum of Cultures. The selection is preceded by a text...

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.

"Cuando en 1537 Cosimo I llegó a Florencia desde el exilio, Italia era un complejo escenario que se disputaban España, Francia y el Papado. Muy pronto Cosimo se convirtió en vasallo de Carlos V y en una pieza clave para sus objetivos en suelo italiano; el emperador, a cambio, favoreció su ascenso político, económico y nobiliario. Esta circunstancia, sumada al matrimonio de Cosimo con Eleonora de Toledo -miembro de una de las familias más influyentes de la corte hispana-, lo llevó a rodearse de una gens nova, nacida a la sombra del nuevo Estado para reemplazar a las familias...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...