Aproximaciones

La estructura de análisis de este libro está dividida en tres partes, comenzando por los proyectos y culminando en la tesis, pasando por los ensayos teóricos, en un intento por entender cabalmente el arco vital de la formación del pensamiento arquitectónico desde el puro pragmatismo hasta el rigor especulativo. La primera parte de este ensayo está dedicada a los proyectos, es una selección ya que durante la carrera se llevan a cabo incontables ejercicios proyectuales, motivados por distintas exigencias académicas y muchos de ellos se pierden en la vorágine de la actividad. La...

Este estudio inserta la vida y obra de Juan de Naveda en el contexto de la arquitectura castellana de la primera mitad del siglo XVII.

In this work, which is based on heritage architecture and cultural studies, the relationship between communities and habitat is studied to understand their way of conceiving and inhabiting the urban territory. The author participation in the Plan Especial de Manejo y Protección (PEMP) of the set of architectural assets of Republican architecture of Quibdó led her to question the handling of historical centers containing declared architectural assets in the country. The stories made invisible or denied by hegemonic heritage perspectives "were the route charted within the framework of the PhD ...

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,...