Paisajes artificiales: virtuales, informales y edificados

Los aeropuertos ya no son sólo aeropuertos. Han dejado atrás su condición de simples máquinas reguladoras del tráfico aéreo y ahora pueden considerarse factores decisivos en la transformación del área metropolitana. Impulsados por una serie de inversiones estratégicas, han asumido posiciones clave en las redes de ferrocarril y de trenes de alta velocidad que hasta hace poco sólo ocupaban las estaciones centrales. Los aeropuertos, como indiscutibles puntos de encuentro de las regiones europeas, se están transformando en centros de actividad en sí mismas, es decir, en nuevos polos...

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,...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.