La imagen de la ciudad medieval

Este livro revela que o design encontra-se pautado pelo binômio estética-funcionalidade. Revela que, independentemente do tamanho das divisões, os conceitos reinantes são o equilíbrio e a harmonia.

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,...

Dentro del complejo saber de la naturaleza y del intricado universo del ser humano, este libro deja como reto la busqueda de un equilibrio entre nuestras acciones y el entonrno que habitamos para garantizar la armonía en el planeta que compartimos. Pero principalmente este libro lanza el desafío para la busqueda de un espacio perdido, el espacio que nos pertenece como seres vivos, esos espacios bilógicos de los cuales carecemos, huérfanos del espacio que nos es propio como organismos vivos.

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.