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Monographic edition dedicated to architect Pedro Castellanos (b. Guadalajara, 1902- d. 1961) was a priest and architect who gained renown in the state of Jalisco during a time of early Modernism marked by sacred purity. He is best known for designing the homes of the Rébora and Aranguren families in Guadalajara.

Este exhaustivo y documentado estudio evolutivo sobre los Sevilla y Sevila, además de rescatarlos del olvido, discierne entre dos linajes alicantinos del siglo XVIII que por su similar homonimia se identificaron como uno solo, siendo distintos, y entre cuyos miembros figura el único y hasta ahora último corsario de ese siglo. Anclados en la rígida sociedad estamental, aplicaron su ingenio y tenaz trabajo, a imitación de otros modelos sociales, sobre un mismo marco económico en un intento por superar su humilde cuna. El autor es doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Alicante, con...

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...

This volume records the stunning architecture of the pharaohs ranging from 3,000 B.C. to the Egyptian style of today. It takes readers from the Sudan to the Mediterranean, and from simple clay brick buildings to monumental pyramids. Recent research and evocative pictures create a new view of the oldest architecture in the world - a very special kind of journey through Egypt.