Los orígenes del ensanche de Barcelona

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

La obra del arquitecto Fernán Bravo es fruto de casi cincuenta años de practicar el arte de la Arquitectura en Argentina, España, Brasil y Guinea. Se trata, buscando una síntesis, de una suerte de enciclopedia o una memoria integral de lo que piensa y de lo que hizo en su profesión, algo absolutamente único. En realidad hablamos de enciclopedia porque en cada item de esta calificada, sugerente sabia muestra de lo que hizo y pensó campea como un hilo sugerente y sutil un humor irónico, frases que sintetizan un pensamiento humanístico y encuadrado perfectamente en cada una de las...

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...