Introducción a la arquitectura contemporánea

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...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

Brillante síntesis de la historia de uno de los sistemas decorativos más importantes del arte occidental, desde su descubrimiento en la Roma del siglo XVI hasta nuestros días, con especial énfasis en el mundo del Renacimiento y el Rococó.

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...