Sistemas de Rehabilitación Energética para Edificios de Uso Residencial. Guía Técnica de Rehabilitación Energética de Edificios para Técnicos Especializados en Construcción.

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

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,...

El contenido general de la obra, que abarca diez volúmenes, se estructuró con dos formatos: el primero para las definiciones de términos arquitectónicos y las biografías ordenadas alfabéticamente, y el segundo para los capítulos. Por una parte, los capítulos comprenden la historia resaumida del desarrollo arquitectónico de las principales culturas y países con la información de sus estilos, ciudades principales, exponentes y obras representativas. Por otro, se encuentran los géneros de edificios con características comúnes de acuerdo a su función básica; se estudian y analizan ...

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.