Volumen 16 La Casa

Luxurious edition that reviews the history and architecture of the Mexican governmental building "Palacio Nacional" and the rich artistic and political patrimony it holds.

El arquitecto vicentino Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) viajó en cuatro ocasiones, quizá cinco, a Roma. Probablemente como consecuencia de su último viaje de 1554, y aprovechando el bagaje que los anteriores le habían procurado en lo referente al estudio de los restos antiguos y a la medición de las ruinas, escribió este opúsculo sobre las antigüedades romanas que fue publicado a la par en Roma y en Venecia ese mismo año. Diferenciándose de las obras coetáneas más importantes de la naciente primera arqueología, Palladio no propone un itinerario topográfico por la ciudad antigua como ...

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,...

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.