Observatorios culturales

En este libro publicado por primera vez en 1973, Christian Norberg-Schulz describe la historia de la arquitectura occidental como una historia de formas significativas. En base a esta perspectiva, que remite a la filosofia existencialista y a la fenomenologia, el autor analiza las principales etapas y los edificios mas importantes en la historia de la arquitectura, desde el antiguo Egipto hasta nuestros dias. Las construcciones de los diversos periodos culturales son descritas como una expresion de valores religiosos y filosoficos prevalentes. El analisis meticuloso del origen significativo...

The present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.

Este livro reúne cinco projectos de arquitectura de habitação do arquitecto Ricardo Vieira de Melo. As fotografias de exterior e interior apresentam detalhes excepcionais. Prefácio de João Rapagão.

This work analyses the celebrations (programme planning, decoration, processions¿) done because of royal births, marriages or death, as well as those celebrations done because of ecclesiastic arrangements, such as canonisation or beatification.