Aridscapes : designing in harsh and fragile lands

De la figura de Luis Barragan (Guadalajara, Jalisco; 1902 - Mexico, D.F.; 1988) y su obra, mucho se ha dicho en el ambito de lo arquitectonico. Sin embarg, es pertinente continuar estudiandolo porque su legado ofrece un valioso y vigente aprendizaje para cualquier habitante que quiera adentrarse en sus espacios de riqueza sensorial. La experiencia que en ellos se obtenga puede alcanzar niveles poeticos, que mas que ser explicados, necesitan de la vivencia para ser entendidos. Este numero de la coleccion Arquitectura y Humanidades conforma una invitacion para realizar un recorrido por las...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

La presente edicion, ampliada especialmente por el autor respecto a la segunda edicion inglesa, presenta una historia internacional completa del desarrollo de la forma urbana desde las primeras ciudades de la antiguedad hasta los albores de las Revoluciones Industriales en Europa y hasta la Guerra Civil de 1861 en los EE.UU. de America.

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...