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This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

La experiencia del Grupo R se analiza en este libro desde una doble vertiente: su historia documental y sus obras más relevantes. Los 16 edificios seleccionados pertenecen a los arquitectos Moragas, Sostres, Pratmarsó, Coderch, Bohigas y Martorell, Bassó y Gili, Balcells, Ribas Piera y el equipo Giráldez, López Íñigo y Subías. Los autores del texto, Carme -Rodríguez, historiadora y Jorge Torres, arquitecto, aportan en este libro un estudio dedicado monográficamente a una experiencia pionera en la recuperación de la arquitectura moderna.

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,...