Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe/Spanish English

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 Libro blanco de la accesibilidad se estructura en una serie de capítulos en los que, a modo de fichas, se estudian la mejora de la accesibilidad y la supresión de barreras arquitectónicas. Es el resultado de una iniciativa del Comité Olímpico Internacional y la Fundació Barcelona Olímpica destinada a analizar la accesibilidad de los Juegos Olímpicos y Paralímpicos celebrados en Barcelona en 1992. En la presente edición en lengua castellana muchas de las situaciones analizadas giran en torno al evento olímpico; pero la mayor parte de ellas tienen también aplicación directa en...

The innovative architectural styles that have emerged from the various climates of Colombian landscape are presented in these insightful essays and spectacular photographs. More than three hundred locations in Colombia fill the three sections divided up by climate zones: hot weather, warm weather, and cold weather. As the creativity of traditional and emerging Colombian architects is revealed, so to is the stunning landscape of a country whose varying climate and indigenous materials—such as guadua, a local bamboo—have influenced Colombian architectural form and content. Las novedosas...

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,...