Diseño de interiores

El presente volumen compila una decena de trabajos que fueron presentados como ponencias en varias mesas temáticas que coordinamos en el marco de las Jornadas Interescuelas-Departamentos de Historia entre los años 2005 y 2015. En el espíritu de aquellas reuniones ya estaba presente el enfoque interdisciplinario a partir del diálogo entre historiadores y arquitectos que ya prefiguraba nuestro previo diálogo como co-coordinadores. Nos propusimos abordar entonces en aquellos encuentros y hoy en esta compilación una amplia gama de transiciones y transacciones, reflexiones y discusiones,...

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,...

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

The present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.