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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,...

"En muy pocas ocasiones se ha dejado que fuera el mismo Gaudí quien expusiera, llana y brevemente, sus ideas sobre arquitectura, construcción y ornamentación o sobre sus tipologías arquitectónicas preferidas: el templo y la casa." A partir de este planteamiento, Laura Mercader nos ofrece, por primera vez, una edición crítica global del legado escrito-con algunos textos todavía inéditos-de uno de los mayores arquitectos del siglo XX, una lectura fiable y genuina de los originales manuscritos o mecanografiados y un trabajo tan exhaustivo como necesario de documentación. El resultado...

Bioarquitectura indaga desde diversos ángulos los principios naturales de las edificaciones animales y humanas, compilando, por primera vez, gran parte de los conocimientos que dan origen y conforman la arquitectura orgánica.

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...