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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 ...

Los textos escritos con una prosa de denso y riguroso estilo literario, tienden siempre a ser lecciones didácticas en las que al discurso racional y metódico se une el discurso irracional que, señalando lo anómalo y lo contradictorio de gran parte de las realizaciones monumentales, recalca la duplicidad de la condición estructural y atemporal de la arquitectura Con sus obras teóricas y didascálicas contribuye a difundir el conocimiento acerca del arte de la edificación, siguiendo la tradición que desde Vitruvio, pasando por Alberti hasta Le Corbusier, ha constituido un corpus de...

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,...

El libro constituye un buen resumen de un debate entablado a lo largo del siglo xix y, fundamentalmente, el siglo xx. La relación entre interior y exterior, la verdad o falsedad del ornamento, la calidad estructural de las fachadas... Un debate capital en la Historia de la Arquitectura Contemporánea, que los autores estudian y analizan en la obra de algunos grandes arquitectos de estos dos siglos: Loos, Wrigst, Wagner, Hoffmann, Mies o Le Corbusier, entre otros.