América Latina, nueva arquitectura

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

José Luis Romero nos ofrece en este libro la oportunidad de hacer un viaje por los vericuetos de un mundo complejo y fascinante: la Edad Media. El libro se divide en dos partes: la sociopolítica, con sus clasificaciones de temprana Edad Media, alta Edad Media y baja Edad Media, y la cultural, en la que se estudian la imagen del universo, las formas de convivencia y la idea del hombre.

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

Este estudio inserta la vida y obra de Juan de Naveda en el contexto de la arquitectura castellana de la primera mitad del siglo XVII.