Arquitectura biológica 1

The work of the Colombian architect Harold Martínez Espinal, shows a way to purposeful way of thinking the architecture in the suburbs. This book makes a journey from his first works in the 1960's and 1970's, determined by the influence of modern architecture, until the beginning of the second millennium where his thought continues.

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.

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

En ocasiones, la riqueza de la arquitectura palaciega y civil del Renacimiento en Úbeda y Baeza ha diluido el extraordinario aporte histórico y estético de sus iglesias a la percepción patrimonial de ambas ciudades. Articuladoras de su trama urbana y social a lo largo del tiempo y ejes centrales de las perspectivas de sus calles y plazas, las iglesias ubetenses y baezanas son elementos imprescindibles de su patrimonio histórico y el escenario tanto de la piedad, el mecenazgo y los deseos de notoriedad de sus oligarquías, como de las devociones más arraigadas en sus gentes desde hace...