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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 ...

A lo largo del siglo XVI Sevilla recibió dos visitas reales de gran trascendencia: en 1526 la del emperador Carlos V para contraer matrimonio con la princesa Isabel de Portugal; en 1570 la de Felipe II, que se encontraba en Andalucía tras la pacificación de las Alpujarras. En ambas ocasiones, la ciudad se revistió de galas clasicistas mediante una serie de arquitecturas efímeras. A través del estudio de esos programas decorativos se pueden deducir las aspiraciones de Sevilla, que en un breve lapso de tiempo iba a experimentar un notable crecimiento y una auténtica metamorfosis. En...

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,...

Este catalogo recorre cronologicamente la obra construida desde 1959 hasta 1992 por el arquitecto Umberto Riva con despacho profesional en su ciudad natal.