Haciendas y estancias en América Latina

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...

Desde las últimas décadas del siglo pasado son cada vez más numerosas las investigaciones desde la perspectiva artística que se han ocupado del siglo XIX en un intento de comprender y analizar sus realizaciones con mayor objetividad o, al menos, sin los prejuicios con que inicialmente el siglo XX juzgó lo decimonónico, al proyectar sobre esa época sus propios ideales y la mirada de las sucesivas vanguardias. Este hecho ha propiciado también un mayor interés por la arquitectura y el urbanismo de esa centuria. Al margen del aprecio estético que puedan suscitarnos hoy en día sus...

The book is devoted to young architect Christian Wiese's architecture firm, presenting a selection of buildings that reflect international tendencies harmoniously combined with Ecuador's heritage and values. His already prolific and international well recognized practice includes technologically advanced buildings, characteristic for their clarity and transparency and unique for his masterly manipulation of interior and exterior space light interaction.

A biographic study of the life and work of English-born Luis Long, who arrived in Mexico in 1873 and lived in León until his death in 1927, recognized as one of the most important architects of his era.