Londres

Barcelona, con su historia milenaria y su ubicación singular en el corredor mediterráneo constituye una ciudad de compleja evolución urbanística. El libro recoge los hechos cruciales de la historia urbana así como la arquitectura de la cuidad. El presente volumen está estructurado en tres capítulos que ordenan la historia y la arquitectura de Barcelona en tres escalas

Architectural study on the religious buildings of collective character built by the Jewish community of Buenos Aires in the 19t and 20th centuries and where the synagogues are the best examples. Their choices of architectural styles or languages responded to the historic moment when these buildings were constructed and respond to the preferences of each group according to their origin or its constructors or architects. The study analyses their morphology, mostly monumental, outside the city limits, and loaded inside and outside with ornaments and visible symbols of Judaism.

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,...

Vienna's once exalted status as the showpiece of an empire is reflected in the elegance and monumentality of its architecture. But behind and beyond the stately façades, design innovations are transforming interiors and resulting in exciting new residential and commercial buildings being constructed at the city's edges. This user-friendly little guide profiles some of the most notable projects built during the last few years and includes color photographs and a site map. Another in teNeues' authoritative series of pocket guides to recent architecture in cities around the world Includes color ...

El dibujo constituye una herramienta capaz de construir y transformar ideas de manera rápida y eficaz. La habilidad de pensar por medio de una imagen es fundamental para transitar por las diversas propuestas conceptuales y conformar la idea arquitectónica. Esta obra propone reorientar el proceso de pensamiento gráfico como el medio idóneo para el desarrollo de ideas y su proyección en el espacio, así como el dominio del entorno creativo, pues este acto de construcción conceptual encuentra su origen en el equilibrio de un dominio de conocimientos técnicos, científicos y artísticos...