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The Catalog Architecture of the Modern Movement of Peru (CAMMP) is the outcome of the investigation of the same name the University of Lima developed between 2013 and 2015. It is the first initiative that set out to inventory and document the most important buildings of the national production in the modern period. Thus, collects and systematizes information and original documents of architecture - drawings, descriptions, photographs, perspectives - found in various publications of the time and files of the authors themselves.--

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,...

Inventory of architectural patrimony and popular culture in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The first part is devoted to architecture and monuments from Pre-Columbian , colonial, 19th and 20th century, with emphasis on Pre-Columbian cultures. Includes mural art and some information on archival holdings. The second half is devoted to folkart, crafts, local culinary history, folklore, fiestas at the village, town, city and state levels.

El arquitecto paisajista tiene una gran responsabilidad a la hora de crear proyectos que no socaven el frágil equilibrio natural de las zonas áridas. La comprensión de este tipo de paisajes será de gran ayuda para preservar nuestro mundo y la calidad de vida de la población que habita en estos territorios. Este libro presenta numerosos ejemplos de oasis, jardines y agricultura en el desierto, en definitiva, una muestra de cómo es posible trabajar con un paisaje inicialmente tan hostil.