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"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

El interés por los espacios mínimos surge a partir de la experiencia personal de la autora en una vivienda de pequeñas dimensiones. Estos no deben ser espacios que se escojan por obligación, sino como experiencia voluntaria, al igual que el propio Le Corbusier elige su estancia mínima como lugar para pasar las vacaciones en Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Se pretende poner en evidencia la influencia que tuvo Le Cabanon en la arquitectura y en la evolución de los espacios mínimos habitables, haciéndolos funcionar como una máquina en conjunto con los muebles que lo integran. Para ello se...

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,...