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Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City...

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,...

¿Por qué se integra a los títulos de esta colección el libro de Alberto Sato? ¿Cuál es el criterio que nos permite justificar su presencia aquí? Pues bien, este libro presenta un desarrollo teórico-histórico atrapante. Podríamos decir que Sato nos devela la saga donde el espacio es el protagonista y la arquitectura acepta resignadamente su destino, ya que el espíritu del tiempo así lo requería. Un libro polémico que desafía las verdades instaladas que la historiografía nos ha entregado. Su lenguaje sugerente, sin duda, va a prendar a quienes se dispongan a disfrutar de su...

"Architecture & Design Australia" is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients that continue to set the scene for the country's exciting architectural language. An index with contact information of the featured architects and designers is enclosed.