Guillermo de Alba

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.

One of two most anticipated rooms of a house (the other is the master bathroom) is the kitchen. It's the interior space where most value can be added during a sale and the space that most homeowners wish to make the heart of the home. This book features over 100 contemporary kitchen designs to suit all sizes, shapes, and ages of house.

The book is the resulting papers from the Seminars of Latin American Architecture (SAL) organized by CEDODAL as an example of academic cooperation between Latin American architects who share their concern for the conservation of the region's architectural patrimony. This edition comprises case studies and historical, economic, social and architectural analysis of the farms and landowners of the haciendas and estancias from 7 countries of Latin America: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, México, Perú and Puerto Rico.

Efímera por naturaleza, juego constante entre el ser y el parecer, la moda es sinónimo de cambio continuo. Con la irrupción de los medios de comunicación masiva, su influencia se cumplió de manera notable. De fenómeno de elites mutó a industria poderosa, en un proceso mundial del que la Argentina participa cada vez más activamente. Historia de la moda y el diseño argentino desde 1776 ofrece un panorama de la vestimenta urbana desde la colonia hasta la actualidad. La moda como mecanismo de poder, la alta costura y el prêt-à-porter, las principales casas y los grandes nombres, las...