La ciudad y los derechos humanos

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

La hegemonía del pensamiento, y sobre todo de la propaganda neoliberal, han abierto una profunda brecha entre el poder constituido y las necesidades reales de la mayoría de la población (desde los sectores populares a las clases medias urbanas) que sufre las consecuencias del ajuste sobre el ajuste, en una espiral de deterioro cuyo final no parece vislumbrarse. Las disciplinas del hábitat no son ajenas a esta crisis, y, al igual que el conjunto social, se debaten entre las urgencias laborales, los condicionamientos impuestos por la concentración de capitales y poderes decisorios y la...

Tratare de explicar que sentido tiene el agrupar arquitectos tan dispares. Mi intencion era el estudiar aquellos arquitectos cuya influencia se ha hecho sentir mas en estos ultimos anos, aquellos que acapararon la atencion de los estudiantes, cuya obra se ha discutido y ha interesado mas.

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,...