Nuevas miradas y exploraciones urbanas. Zaragoza 1968-2018

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,...

A detailed study of the popular architecture in the Calchiques Valley region of Argentina, comprising parts of the Salta, Tucumán, and Catamarca provinces.

Desde las últimas décadas del siglo pasado son cada vez más numerosas las investigaciones desde la perspectiva artística que se han ocupado del siglo XIX en un intento de comprender y analizar sus realizaciones con mayor objetividad o, al menos, sin los prejuicios con que inicialmente el siglo XX juzgó lo decimonónico, al proyectar sobre esa época sus propios ideales y la mirada de las sucesivas vanguardias. Este hecho ha propiciado también un mayor interés por la arquitectura y el urbanismo de esa centuria. Al margen del aprecio estético que puedan suscitarnos hoy en día sus...

Reference honoring the cultural and architecture legacy of Daz Morales (b. Mexico) in the centenary of his birth. The present catalogue complements the book "Ignacio Diaz, su pensamiento" and is the result of an exhaustive research in the archive of the Diaz Morales family, examining a large number of documents and selecting for this publication the most representative. The drawings, documents, photographs, plans and elevations of each project are chronologically organized and represent the 7 decades of designs and architectural projects by the noted architect.