Mies van der Rohe

High-end hotels have always been the setting for style and fantasy, a venue to see and be seen. This volume explores a relatively new trend, where major fashion houses take over the running of upscale hostelries. With every detail coordinated, from bed linens, to d????cor, china and glassware, the overall effect is of a chic jewel box, where every piece shines. We get a peek at glamorous hotels conceived and run with flair, by major fashion players like Bulgari, Christian Lacroix, Ferragamo, and Versace.

For store planners and designers, visual merchandisers, owner/operators of retail stores, graphic designers, office & restaurant managers.

El objetivo de esta obra es dar a conocer la formacion y la ejecucion inicial de una de las piezas mas significativas de la urbanistica del siglo XIX: el Ensanche de Barcelona, segun el proyecto de Ildefonso Cerda, la transformacion de un territorio rural desconocido, la tecnica de su construccion y el sector inmobiliario que lo desarrollo, explicando no solo el hecho urbanistico sino tambien una parte importante de la historia de Barcelona. Dicha publicacion se enmarca en la linea de los trabajos de investigacion que los profesores del LUB han venido desarrollando desde finales de los anos...

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...