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Arte y Arquitectura examina los paralelismos existentes en la evolución reciente del arte y la arquitectura en el ámbito internacional. Los límites se desdibujan a medida que objetivos y actitudes convergen. Las intervenciones y los lugares se parecen cada día más. El espacio de tiempo que abarca este estudio comprende las dos últimas décadas del siglo xx (1978-1998. El libro consta de dos partes. En la página izquierda de cada capítulo se muestra la obra de un artista y en la de la derecha, la de un arquitecto. Las obras aparecen reunidas según conceptos y presentadas en ocho...

Estos analisis sobre el lenguaje de la arquitectura se dirigen "a todos aquellos que aprecian lo suficiente la arquitectura para empezar a reflexionar sobre ella en lugar de limitarse a su contemplacion."

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...

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...