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How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

1998 Premio Bienal: Historia Both an architectural and a social history, this book examines the social implications of the elaborate design, construction, and decor details of Colombian republican houses of the 19th and 20th centuries. The elegant hallways, warm bedrooms, and eclectic combinations of foreign styles are the main characteristics of Colombia's post-colonial homes and an evocative means to rediscover the majesty of Colombia’s Belle Époque. Una historia tanto de arquitectura como de una sociedad, este libro fotográfico ilumina las implicaciones sociales de los elaborados...

Architectural guide to the city of Guadalajara, with a selection of close to 300 buildings representative of all time periods. The guide is divided in 3 sections: the first, the largest and medullar part of the book is the presentation of the buildings; a second section is an inventory of buildings important in the history of the city but now disappeared, and a third section includes location maps with recommended itineraries and routes. Each entry includes the name, date and brief history of the building and the name of the architect.

ensayos que componen este libro, proponen un vinculo entre la imaginacion y la arquitectura, a traves de relatos, descripciones y fantasias acerca de espacios que surgieron a partir de esa capacidad humana temporal y utopica que nos permite prefigurar el acto creativo: la imaginacion. Pero la imaginacion es mucho mas que una facultad del ser humano, es un proceso superior complejo que permite trascender nuestra condicion humana y posibilita superar las fronteras del mundo fisico e incluso del mundo incorporeo, que desde la Ilustracion -en el contexto de Occidente- quedo reducido al...