Bienvenidos a Bonfist

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.

Esta versión en castellano se corresponde a la traducción de la edición original publicada en inglés en 1951. De este modo, se pretende recuperar uno de los textos más reconocidos del arquitecto urbanista Steen E. Rasmussen y contribuir a su difusión entre estudiosos y amantes de la arquitectura. El autor con su obra pretende incitar al lector a que mire la ciudad como una entidad que expresa determinados ideales, y los edificios y monumentos singulares que la componen, como la parte de un todo. Las ciudades no se estudian aquí de un modo idéntico o de acuerdo a un método particular, ...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

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,...