Suiza Constructiva

The book analyses a selection of 10 houses and 14 buildings constructed in Costa Rica from 2000 to 2005 and that represent the current urban San Jose's growth trends. The domestic architecture reflects a higher purchasing power with an appreciation oh natural surroundings, the office and industrial buildings are aimed some at rescuing the historic downtown area while others were constructed in the suburban area of the city. Includes biographies of mentioned architects.

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

Presenta este libro un recorrido histórico (desde la época imperial hasta el siglo XX) rastreando y documentando las huellas de lo hispánico en Roma. Emperadores y reyes como Trajano, como Carlos V, o como Alfonso XIII, escritores como Cervantes, como Valle-Inclán, o como Rafael Alberti, y pintores como Velázquez se asoman a las páginas de esta obra revelando el ayer y el hoy de la presencia histórica de España en Roma. Al trabajo de minuciosa investigación historiográfica se suma una amplia colección de fotos, en su mayor parte inéditas, que ofrecen la imagen plástica de la...

This catalogue offers a chronological survey of the work constructed between 1984 and 1994 by the architect Jo Coenen (Heerlen, 1949), with offices in Eindhoven and Maastricht.