Barcelona Art Nouveau

GEOMETRÍA fue una revista técnica e independiente que, dirigida por el Arquitecto José Seguí, se editó entre los años 1.985 y 2.000 tratando de recuperar el diálogo profesional entre las prácticas de la arquitectura y del urbanismo, desarrollando y entendiendo el proyecto arquitectónico y urbanístico desde la propia estructura urbana que lo soporta y su referencia al proyecto global de la ciudad. Esta conjunción de valores estéticos y prácticos, que podríamos definirlos como el arte de construir ciudades, fue el centro de un debate profesional que construyó la disciplina de la...

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...