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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,...

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This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Radicado en Nueva York, Peter Eisenman es una de las figuras más destacadas de la arquitectura del periodo de posguerra en el ámbito internacional. Con sus extensos escritos teóricos y sus proyectos constructivos en Estados Unidos, Japón, España y Alemania, no sólo ha influido en generaciones de arquitectos y educadores, sino que ha preparado el camino a la actual vanguardia digital. El presente libro es el primer volumen que ofrece un panorama completo de los edificios y proyectos realizados por Eisenman, desde su primera obra, Casa I (1960), hasta sus más recientes trabajos a gran...