Los orígenes del ensanche de Barcelona

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,...

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...

La història del disseny arquitectònic en l’Edat Mitjana ha estat el nostre punt de partida per a estudiar els sistemes voltats del gòtic valencià. Amb aquests coneixements previs s’aborda aquesta obra, sobre la base d’un catàleg elaborat amb aquest motiu de les creueries dels edificis estudiats. Partim del convenciment que el dibuix era l’eina imprescindible en la producció de les estructures voltades. Per aquesta raó, seguint el sistema medieval de traces i plantilles, dibuixem totes i cada una de les creueries més representatives de l’àmbit valencià. El dibuix permet...

"Monographic edition dedicated to study the life and modernistic designs of architect Henonin (b. Mexico, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA since 1984) with a guide to review his architectural legacy in the cities of Guadalajara and México as well as in theUnited States. Henonin was part of the first generation to graduate from the Architecture School of the University and one of the first architects of the city of Guadalajara"--Provided by vendor.