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El paisaje que ve el autor es a la vez personal y filtrado por la perspectiva y el saber del geógrafo. Es, al mismo tiempo, un mirara hacia dentro, hacia los conceptos y las experiencias, y hacia fuera, a la belleza, condiciones y problemas de las formas del mundo. Este libro muestra así un ejercicio intelectual múltiple para asir, comprender y explicar los paisajes reales, es decir, los lugares y sus imágenes, especialmente algunos preferidos, a través de sus configuraciones y representaciones. Esta obra agrupa piezas de una extensa narración por entregas, otorgándolas el sentido...

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.

Describes the degree and license mechanisms for the professional practice of architecture in Peru from the first courses in the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, with a detailed presentation of the school formation of the architects from 1910 to 1950 in the School of Engineering of the university. The book was originally the author's masters thesis and won the prize "Héctor Velarde" during the XI Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura, organized in 2004 by CAP.

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,...