Tipologías arquitectónicas coloniales y republicanas

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

Este libro reúne los principales escritos en los que Walter Gropius expresó sus ideas y motivaciones antes de su emigración a Inglaterra en 1934. Su lectura ofrece hoy visiones diferenciadas de su obra, pero también de la arquitectura moderna en general. Por sorprendente que pueda parecer, Gropius es en la actualidad, y en el ámbito cultural de habla hispana, una figura tan paradigmática como poco conocida, al menos en lo tocante a sus presupuestos teóricos e ideológicos. Hasta la fecha, muy pocos de sus textos se habían traducido al español –casi siempre los mismos y casi siempre ...