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Barcelona is a city renowned for its daring design sense where all kinds of commercial spaces have been remodelled or newly created by adventurous architects and interior designers. This book focuses on a wide range of shops distinguished not only for their original architecture and innovative design but also for the uniqueness of the products they sell and for the manner in which they are displayed. ? This indispensable guide to the finest retail spaces in Barcelona is conveniently formatted to fit into any handbag, backpack, or briefcase and includes a site map for ease of use. ? Lavishly...

- Identificar las condiciones básicas de manipulación de materiales y productos para su carga o descarga en relación con su naturaleza, estado, cantidades, protección y medios de transporte utilizado. - Clasificar y describir los distintos tipos de paletización, relacionándolos con la forma de constitución de la carga a transportar. - Interpretar y aplicar la normativa referente a la prevención de riesgos laborales y de la salud de los trabajadores. - Interpretar la simbología utilizada en las señalizaciones del entorno y en los medios de transporte. - Identificar los elementos de...

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,...

"Taking over the baton from their mentor and friend Eduardo Chillida, the architects Juan Carlos Sancho (San Sebastián, 1957) and Sol Madridejos (Madrid, 1958) have pursued a sensitive dialectic between matter and void that lies at the foundations of a fertile formal laboratory, one where the fold is an instrument with great potential in the attainment of structural, spatial, and material coherence. In these pages Arquitectura Viva presents a selection of four Spanish works – ranging from a small chapel to a large educational complex – in which the duo composes variations on the same...

Escrito en Montreal recoge una muestra del trabajo de los estudiantes del seminario de posgrado Critical Writing (Escritura Crítica) que enseña el Profesor Ricardo L. Castro en la Escuela de Arquitectura de McGill University, sobre temas de escritura en arquitectura, especialmente narrativa de, y sobre, lugar. La ciudad de Montreal ha sido consistentemente el lugar a explorar. El trabajo de los participantes del seminario, que corresponde al semestre de otoño de 2013, combina experiencia de lugar con reflexiones teóricas e históricas sobre lugares urbanos. Los ensayos cortos de los...