Monumento a la Madre

"Architecture & Design Australia" is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients that continue to set the scene for the country's exciting architectural language. An index with contact information of the featured architects and designers is enclosed.

Barcelona 1992-2004 offers a selection of chronologically arranged projects that provide an overview of the period that commences with the 1992 Olympic Games and culminates in the huge cultural event that is the Universal Forum of Cultures-Barcelona 2004. The selection has focused in particular on projects involving the city’s openness to the sea and those which have managed to adapt to its existing residential fabric. Presented as separate chapters are projects for new high-rise buildings and schemes for the 22@ plan and the Universal Forum of Cultures. The selection is preceded by a text...

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

Un recorrido sencillo y ameno a través de 100 jardines ingleses representativos e influyentes desde el siglo xvi hasta la actualidad. Abarca la historia completa de los jardines ingleses, desde los más formales del Renacimiento y los bucólicos lugares de la tradición paisajística inglesa hasta las borduras herbáceas estilo Arts & Crafts del siglo xx y los diseños contemporáneos. Incluye jardines históricos y auténticos símbolos nacionales, como los del palacio de Hampton Court y el palacio Blenheim de Capability Brown, así como ejemplos influyentes y menos conocidos, como los de...