Barcelona

La primera lectura que hacemos de una ciudad es a través de su propia estructura urbana y su arquitectura. Los diversos acontecimientos de la historia tienen un claro reflejo en la manera en que se han construido las ciudades. El Atlas Histórico de Arquitectura nos permite hacer una lectura global de la ciudad al ofrecer un mapa completo sobre la historia de su desarrollo urbano y su arquitectura. Londres, el primer título de esta colección, es una ciudad que a lo largo de su historia no ha dejado de ser punto de referencia de la cultura occidental. En el presente volumen se recogen los...

A detailed study and documentation of one of the most noted architects in Chile from the 1920s to the 1970s. The study puts his work into context of the social environment of Chile during those years. The architecture of Munizaga encompassed residential, commericial and public buildings that included theaters and multi-family dwellings.

Javier Senosiain¹s architecture is always a discovery and, undoubtedly, a surprise that causes intrigue and certain restlessness; it is full of questions particularly for those of us who were formed on the functional rational school where, it should be said, he was formed with us. The questions are accumulated when opening this book of his work as it happened when reading his book of bioarchitecture. In the integral and modern Mexican architecture society, these unusual gestures are not so frequent and, since the appearance of the above mentioned works, a growing surprise has accompanied the ...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

«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, ...