Ciudades imaginadas en la literatura y en las artes

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 ...

Este libro presenta la edición del manuscrito castellano e.IV.5 (Biblioteca de El Escorial), que describe la coronación del rey Carlos VIII de Francia en mayo de 1484 y su entrada, dos meses más tarde, en París, en medio de celebraciones y festividades diversas. Si bien este manuscrito aparecía ya en los repertorios bibliográficos españoles, nunca hasta la fecha se había realizado ningún estudio sobre él ni se había editado, laguna que esta publicación y otros dos trabajos de las mismas autoras (López Izquierdo/Pons Rodríguez, 2015, y Pons Rodríguez/López Izquierdo, en...

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...

A study by the founder of the Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad del Bío-Bío. The first part is a history from pre-Columbian times to 1973, omitting the long colonial period. The second part considers the evolution of urbanism in Chile and includes a chronology of national and international architectural events and several annexes.