Arquitectura y envejecimiento

Architectural study on the religious buildings of collective character built by the Jewish community of Buenos Aires in the 19t and 20th centuries and where the synagogues are the best examples. Their choices of architectural styles or languages responded to the historic moment when these buildings were constructed and respond to the preferences of each group according to their origin or its constructors or architects. The study analyses their morphology, mostly monumental, outside the city limits, and loaded inside and outside with ornaments and visible symbols of Judaism.

Los profesionales que transitamos el tercer milenio, merecemos información bibliográfica acorde con los tiempos que vivimos, por tal motivo ya no pueden existir publicaciones de formación técnica que no se actualicen constantemente, para adaptarse a los cambios tecnológicos y económicos que inevitablemente se producen en el mundo. Nuevos materiales que aparecen continuamente en el mercado de la construcción, han ido cambiando tiempos de ejecución de ciertas tareas. Maquinarias y equipos manuales, cada vez más al alcance de todos los niveles de mano de obra, van cambiando la...

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,...

Este libro de Louis H. Sullivan es el documento que registra las teorías que influyeron a las generaciones que lo siguieron como lo atestigua el apodo de "Meister" que le diera su principal continuador, Frank Lloyd Wright.--