La impronta del ladrillo

A comprehensive study on the evolution of 17th century architecture and architectonical elements in churches, civil buildings and houses in viceregal Lima, including the wooden structures using mudejar techniques. This architectural style resulted from the synergy process between indigenous and foreign construction techniques that merge to create a unique and local architecture. This is the third of a 4 volume series.

"This work examines and illustrates the cultural transactions suggested by Hispanophilia in Puerto Rican Architecture. It traces the appropriation of styles associated with ""things Spanish"" through the process of revival: ""the past as lived by the present."""

El desarrollo del capitalismo industrial durante los siglos xix y xx trajo consigo un aumento muy considerable de la complejidad del mundo economico y tecnico, lo cual, en el plano de la administracion empresarial, ha generado la necesidad de ampliar y profundizar su ambito teorico y practico. Hoy en dia la gestion de empresas abarca un vasto campo del saber, donde concurren y se complementan los conocimientos provenientes de diversas ramas de las humanidades, las ciencias y la tecnica, y en donde cada disciplina juega un importante papel en la tarea de hacer dicha gestion cada vez mas...

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,...