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A través de los estudios realizados en todos los países europeos se percibe una constante, aunque todas las ciudades desde su creación hasta los años 50 y 60 del siglo XX han ido evolucionando, transformándose, destruyéndose y reconstruyéndose, las modificaciones sufridas han sido “suaves”, si exceptuamos las destrucciones producidas por las dos guerras mundiales, o las intervenciones en los conjuntos urbanos sufridas en algunas ciudades al ser objeto de reformas estructurales con motivo del embellecimiento de las capitales reales.

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.

"The book reviews the personality and temperament of neoclassic architect De Alba (b. Mexico) through his architecture. De Alba was an architect/engineer who left anarchitectural legacy in the cities of Guadalajara and Chapala active at the turn of the 20th century whose constructions reflect the universal eclecticism of a Revolutionary generation and industrial society educated during the Porfirio Diaz regime"--Provided by vendor.

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.