El Lenguaje clásico de la arquitectura

El libro La cumbre urbana, de las Carmelitas Descalzas a la casa del Corregidor es el segundo volumen de la serie Cuenca, ciudad barroca, editada en colaboración por el Consorcio de la Ciudad de Cuenca y la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Prosigue pues los objetivos propuestos en el tomo anterior. Recoge lo esencial de la historiografía precedente, identifica problemas no resueltos y añade una visión personal de los mismos, adentrándose en parcelas del conocimiento no tratadas hasta la fecha. Atentos a la complejidad del fenómeno arquitectónico, se incluyen aquí los aspectos de...

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

Francisco de la Maza nos lleva por un recorrido en el M xico del siglo XVII: la ciudad y sus habitantes, las inundaciones, la Universidad, los conventos, parroquias y hospitales, pasan revista en este libro que, dentro de su concisi n, ofrece el ameno retrato de un siglo.

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...