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In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

Obra que reconstruye y analiza los ataques anticlericales ocurridos en la ciudad de Málaga a unos días de ser proclamada la II República. Consta de siete capítulos y 448 páginas, con más de 120 fotografías.

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

A través de los estudios realizados en todos los países europeos se percibe una constante, aunque todas las ciudades desde su creación hasta los años 50 y 60 del siglo XX han ido evolucionando, transformándose, destruyéndose y reconstruyéndose, las modificaciones sufridas han sido “suaves”, si exceptuamos las destrucciones producidas por las dos guerras mundiales, o las intervenciones en los conjuntos urbanos sufridas en algunas ciudades al ser objeto de reformas estructurales con motivo del embellecimiento de las capitales reales.