Historia de la arquitectura y el urbanismo mexicanos

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 diccionario ha supuesto una ardua y extraordinaria tarea de compilación, estudio y definición de más de quince mil voces sobre arte y arquitectura realizada durante años por Andrés Calzada (1892-1938), ensayista, historiador, arquitecto y catedrático de Historia de las Artes Plásticas y Arquitectura de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona. La labor de clasificación, mecanografiado y edición definitiva de las fichas ha estado a cargo del Profesor Juan Bassegoda Nonell, conservador de la Real Cátedra de Gaudí, incorporando también nuevos términos...

For the first time ever a monograph dedicated to the temporary projects and personal designs created by world-renowned architect Enric Miralles.A quick perusal of the pages makes it patently clear that for Miralles the word temporary could never be synonymous with minor. From the design of the pergolas in the Olympic Village in Barcelona to the changing sets of an Opera that premiered in his own studio each work is a celebration of space, time and movement. 16 projects are featured.

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...