Impressively researched, splendidly illustrated, and beautifully written, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury's Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City offers a truly fresh reconsideration of the nature and significance of Chicago's iconic ...

Este libro analiza exhaustivamente, y desde distintas perspectivas, la presencia del modernismo en el contexto de la arquitectura ecléctica madrileña de principios del siglo XX.El estudio se estructura en dos ...

One of the most interesting questions in architectural history is why modern architecture emerged from the war-ravaged regions of central Europe and not the United States, whose techniques of mass ...

Historically, in the old architecture of Qatar, the urban development of cities and villages was based on the creation of agglomerations of housing units. These agglomerations were the essence of ...

Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic ...

El libro se organiza en temas propios de cada época y con referencias cruzadas, a fin de ofrecer una visión multidimensional y en profundidad de los principales movimientos y ejemplos ...

El autor nos propone, a través de un análisis contextual e individualizado de los términos municipales de Tierra de Mérida - Vegas Bajas, la aproximación a una arquitectura no valorada ...

Ruiz Taboada y Fernández del Cerro recorren en este volumen la dilatada historia del monumento, enterrado durante cuatro siglos bajo la llamada 'Puerta Nueva del barrio de la Antequeruela. Monumentos ...

Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly, unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the great and powerful, ranging from huge ...

Los autores en esta publicación han realizado un análisis exhaustivo de los elementos patrimoniales de esta carretera, además de un inventario final, con el fin de ver la posibilidad de ...

Actas Mudéjares y agua en los dominios del monasterío cisterciense de Santa María de Veruela durante la edad media

La ciudad de Almagro se ha configurado a lo largo de los siglos como ciudad singular por sus trazados urbanos, sus espacios públicos y por la presencia de los edificios ...

Although Berlin's history encompasses more than eight hundred years and its beginnings reach back as far as the twelfth century, its present-day urban image is essentially characterised by structures and ...

Entre 1931 y 1942 algunos jóvenes arquitectos, impregnados de los postulados de las vanguardias europeas contemporáneas, fueron proyectando en la ciudad de Huesca un heterogéneo conjunto de edificios singulares, sobre ...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, artists and architects have often been in collaboration. This relationship was not necessarily without conflict - on the contrary, a productive tension and ...

The Oxford Companion to Architecture is a new A-Z reference book on a popular and much-debated subject. It covers all aspects of architecture, from architects, building types, and movements and ...

José Luis Abellán es Catedrático de Filosofía de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y actual profesor emérito. Premio Nacional de Ensayo (1981). Representante de España en la UNESCO. Fundador y ...

The BLDGBLOG Book -- Nearly five million readers have visited the BLDGBLOG Web site since its inception in 2004 for stories about the past, news about the present, and speculation ...

Thinking Big: A History of Davis Langdon provides a history of one of the worlds largest quantity surveying companies. They have been involved in the rebuilding of Ground Zero, Chek ...