Frei Otto

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.

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,...

Describes the degree and license mechanisms for the professional practice of architecture in Peru from the first courses in the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, with a detailed presentation of the school formation of the architects from 1910 to 1950 in the School of Engineering of the university. The book was originally the author's masters thesis and won the prize "Héctor Velarde" during the XI Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura, organized in 2004 by CAP.

Desde la fecha de su primera edición en París en 1804, el tratado de arquitectura de Claude Nicolas Ledoux sigue siendo una obra de referencia. Estableciendo una compleja relación entre texto e imagen, literatura y arquitectura, el autor logró hacer de su tratado una verdadera autobiografía arquitectónica que ilustra, al mismo tiempo, ese profundo cambio producido entre la arquitectura del antiguo régimen y las necesidades funcionales, tecnológicas y sociales que la Revolución industrial estaba ya imprimiendo. La edición que ahora presentamos -primera en castellano- con inclusión...