Casas con estructuras de acero

The book analyses a selection of 10 houses and 14 buildings constructed in Costa Rica from 2000 to 2005 and that represent the current urban San Jose's growth trends. The domestic architecture reflects a higher purchasing power with an appreciation oh natural surroundings, the office and industrial buildings are aimed some at rescuing the historic downtown area while others were constructed in the suburban area of the city. Includes biographies of mentioned architects.

El presente trabajo reúne los elementos necesarios para concretar la conformación de una nueva división territorial, como es el área metropolitana, para el conjunto de municipios que, bajo la influencia de la ciudad de Cali, están inmersos en el proceso de metropolización. En él, se ha realizado una contundente investigación, en la cual, de una parte, se corrobora la existencia del fenómeno de metropolización, y de otra, se aporta una hoja de ruta con posibles procedimientos a seguir para constituir el área metropolitana de sur del Valle y norte del Cauca. Para delimitar tanto la...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

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,...