Transformaciones

"The book reviews the personality and temperament of neoclassic architect De Alba (b. Mexico) through his architecture. De Alba was an architect/engineer who left anarchitectural legacy in the cities of Guadalajara and Chapala active at the turn of the 20th century whose constructions reflect the universal eclecticism of a Revolutionary generation and industrial society educated during the Porfirio Diaz regime"--Provided by vendor.

A lo largo del siglo XVI Sevilla recibió dos visitas reales de gran trascendencia: en 1526 la del emperador Carlos V para contraer matrimonio con la princesa Isabel de Portugal; en 1570 la de Felipe II, que se encontraba en Andalucía tras la pacificación de las Alpujarras. En ambas ocasiones, la ciudad se revistió de galas clasicistas mediante una serie de arquitecturas efímeras. A través del estudio de esos programas decorativos se pueden deducir las aspiraciones de Sevilla, que en un breve lapso de tiempo iba a experimentar un notable crecimiento y una auténtica metamorfosis. En...

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...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.