Sagrada Familia s. XXI

This work analyses the celebrations (programme planning, decoration, processions¿) done because of royal births, marriages or death, as well as those celebrations done because of ecclesiastic arrangements, such as canonisation or beatification.

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

Tal como enseñan todas las doctrinas y filosofías tradicionales, el Universo es un hecho simbólico. Dice un proverbio árabe que todo puede ser reducido a símbolos, excepto Tufân el aliento de fuego. Se dice que existe, en la causa primera, una fuente más antigua de símbolos cercana al fuego y al agua de vida, concepto próximo al simbolismo coránico del agua del mundo árabe. El pensamiento simbólico de los primeros pueblos indoeuropeos veían en muchas deidades la manifestación de fuegos primigenios y el manantial de lo simbólico, cierta unión donde los opuestos dejan de...

Javier Senosiain¹s architecture is always a discovery and, undoubtedly, a surprise that causes intrigue and certain restlessness; it is full of questions particularly for those of us who were formed on the functional rational school where, it should be said, he was formed with us. The questions are accumulated when opening this book of his work as it happened when reading his book of bioarchitecture. In the integral and modern Mexican architecture society, these unusual gestures are not so frequent and, since the appearance of the above mentioned works, a growing surprise has accompanied the ...