Gozar el arte, gozar la arquitectura

A detailed guide to the buildings that architect Juan O'Gorman (b. Mexico 1905-1982) constructed in Mexico City, with maps, photographs, plans and detailed descriptions of each one. Includes many of his most noted designs: Casa-estudio Diego Rivera-Frida Kahlo, museum Anahuacalli (Diego Rivera), museum Casa Azul (Frida Kahlo) and others.

El objeto de la presente publicación responde al deseo de evaluar el edificio primigenio del actual Museo del Prado, es decir, el construido por Juan de Villanueva entre 1785 y 1808; un edificio que se proyectaba junto al recién creado Jardín Botánico para albergar su Laboratorio Químico y, finalmente, para acoger así mismo la Academia de Ciencias y el Gabinete de Historia Natural. Se trataba por tanto de la creación de una institución de carácter científico, por lo que ha sido ineludible el análisis de la situación de las ciencias en el contexto histórico nacional. Villanueva...

"Comprehensive study by a group of scholars explores the development, expansion, and economic impact of haciendas in the state of Morelos, especially those connected to the sugar industry. Illustrated with contemporary color photographs, 19th- and early-20th-century photographs, and maps. Also includes much archival data"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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,...