ARQUITECTURAS EFIMERAS

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

Mirar, ver y estudiar la ciudad de Santander desde un punto de vista matemático. Este ha sido el objetivo básico de este trabajo y, para ello, observamos la geometría de la arquitectura de sus edificios y monumentos, sus formas, sus detalles y ornamentos, por un lado, y la historia o anécdotas de esos lugares, por otro. En su segunda edición, revisada y aumentada,se ha vuelto a utilizar la fotografía como herramienta fundamental, ayudada por el software GeoGebra, los applets Descartes y la tecnología Flash.

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 is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.