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El libro analiza y clarifica un tema hasta ahora un poco estudiado: el jardín como obra de arquitectura durante el Renacimiento italiano. Se acompaña de abundante material gráfico (más de 200 ilustraciones) y un índice de nombres.

La arquitectura padece hoy una crisis que ahonda sus raíces en las postrimerías del siglo XVIII, con la pérdida de autoridad de la tradición clásica, que aunaba de manera natural forma, uso y construcción. Con la búsqueda de modelos alternativos, se desencadenó una larga batalla de estilos que termina con el Movimiento Moderno, promotor de una auténtica ruptura radical con el pasado. Desde este momento se entroniza la función, la atención al usuario y el culto a las novedades constructivas. Estos ideales se reúnen bajo el nombre de «funcionalismo» que no tardó en ser...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

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,...