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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.

Este libro presenta una serie de reflexiones, relatos, dibujos y obras de arquitectos realizados entre los años 2005 y 2008. Son el reflejo del ejercicio profesional, de llegar a la comprensión de las necesidades del usuario y volcarlas en el proyecto

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,...

¿Cual era la visión del mundo de Antoni Gaudí? ¿Qué pensaba el arquitecto sobre la belleza, la luz, el arte, la geometría o la naturaleza? Este volumen recoge los aspectos fundamentales de su filosofía, a través de citas recopiladas por sus discípulos, y los ejemplifica con multitud de imágenes de sus obras más conocidas.