Movitectura: Arquitectura Móvil (Mobitecture) (Spanish Edition)

"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.

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

La obra de Antoni Gaudí nos sigue fascinando hoy tanto como fascinó a Eusebi Güell, que en la exposición de París de 1878 quiso contactar con el autor desconocido de una vitrina para exponer guantes al que acabaría encargando hasta cinco significativos proyectos arquitectónicos. Basta pensar en cómo la Sagrada Família, su última y principal obra, sigue admirando hoy tanto o más que a principios del siglo XX, cuando a penas despuntaban sus primeras cuatro torres. Pero el rastro de su genio en Barcelona, Catalunya y España, e incluso sus proyectos no realizados, como el rascacielos...

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,...