Castillos y fortificaciones de Galicia

Recopilación de trabajos de investigación sobre la arquitectura cubana realizados por historiadores, arquitectos y profesores de las escuelas cubanas de arquitectura, y que contribuyen a la valoración del patrimonio arquitectónico colonial.

Soy usuaria agradecida. Por su utilidad indiscutible, pero igualmente por el placer que me causa la brevísima dinámica de una marca, lo gozoso de un envoltorio, la misteriosa belleza de un libro cerrado y la responsable lucidez cuando está abierto, la solidaria claridad de una señalización, la pautada sensualidad de la tipografía, el juego enunciativo de una gráfica cinematográfica o televisiva, lo amenamente comunicativo de un pictograma o arquigrafía, en el animado y perseverante buen servicio del diseño informativo. Vivo entre todos estos fenómenos, lo necesito y permanentemente ...

A detailed study on the architecture and the life of British engineer and architect Reed who left an extraordinary legacy of neoclassic architecture in Colombia and in other regions of Latin America. Reed designed and constructed the Capitolio Nacional and the Museo Nacional in Colombia along other public buildings, theaters as well as other constructions in Ecuador and Venezuela between 1843 and 1878.

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

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.