Gaudí

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...

Una cuidada selección de proyectos recientes realizados por arquitectos, proporcionando un interesante panorama de lenguajes y técnicas aplicadas a mostrar una arquitectura factible, un verdadero reto, frente al aumento de costos de los terrenos urbanos la casa compacta es una respuesta sensata. Las memorias escritas por los propios arquitectos son conceptuales, muestran sus puntos de vista frente a una problemática similar, cada obra es mostrada exhaustivamente con plantas, cortes, vistas y fotos de detalles que ayudan a hacer más comprensiva su obra, material de documentación necesaria ...

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

Un apasionante viaje a través del tiempo, desde el Mayrit musulmán hasta la modernidad del siglo XXI, nos desvela el alma de la ciudad de Madrid, describe las transformaciones del espacio urbano y analiza los misterios que se ocultan tras la génesis de algunos de sus edificios más representativos. La Historia secreta de Madrid es una suerte de "guía de autor", un itinerario histórico que nos ofrece las claves para entender este espacio que comienza a definirse con murallas y arrabales medievales de trazado irregular, atraviesa los siglos cargado de conventos, hospitales, mercados y...