Arquitectura y envejecimiento

Who ever said you can't have it all? This highly useful and decorative guide profiles lodgings around the world where you can enjoy the hippest of hospitality without breaking the bank. Including affordable hotels in locales as varied as Amsterdam and Cape Town, this guide makes sure your vacation fantasies can become reality.

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Monographic edition dedicated to one of the most noted disciples of José Villagrán García and Ignacio Díaz Morales. Architec Nafarrate's works are characteristic for the use of natural illumination and ventilation and the strong importance he gives to the environment. Some of his most recognized works include: Residential complex "Los Parques", Hotel "Las Hadas", and the "Twin Dolphin" in Baja California.

«Cuando se terminó, en 1432, la cúpula de la catedral de Florencia, Alberti dijo de ella que era el primer gran logro del arte nuevo y que igualaba, e incluso superaba, los de la Antigüedad». Con estas palabras comienza Ludwig H. Heydenreich el texto dedicado a la arquitectura del Quattrocento italiano, que junto con el Cinquecento es uno de los periodos más ricos de la arquitectura italiana. Bastaría nombrar algunas de las figuras más representativas a las que se hace referencia en estas páginas, como Brunelleschi, Michelozzo, Ghiberti, Donatello, Alberti, Bramante, Rafael, Peruzzi, ...