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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,...

Este libro, más allá de la reflexión sobre los temas tratados en el evento que se realizó entre el 14 y el 16 de noviembre de 2018, revela preocupaciones colectivas acerca del manejo del territorio, la ciudad y la arquitectura contemporánea en diferentes escalas que interactúan entre sí, lo que vuelve complejo entretejer los elementos de la discusión en donde el conocimiento de lo local en cada uno de los contextos del continente es indispensable para comprender la diversidad y heterogeneidad que nos caracteriza. Los temas del territorio a la arquitectura han sido los grandes...

Private Tuscany takes a look into the homes of Italy's most romantic region, revealing their characteristic architecture and the rich variety of their interior styles.

Architectural study on the religious buildings of collective character built by the Jewish community of Buenos Aires in the 19t and 20th centuries and where the synagogues are the best examples. Their choices of architectural styles or languages responded to the historic moment when these buildings were constructed and respond to the preferences of each group according to their origin or its constructors or architects. The study analyses their morphology, mostly monumental, outside the city limits, and loaded inside and outside with ornaments and visible symbols of Judaism.