Agua, arquitectura y paisaje en Europa

This comprehensive round-up features the many door and window types available today, including the most recent technical advances and design trends, with a focus on innovative materials, styles and shapes.

"The exhibit presents the complete history of the Spanish architectural activity in the Río de la Plata region soon after the War of Independence and into the new millennium. Includes many drawings, plans and designs by Spanish architects that worked in Río de la Plata and of Argentinean architects working in Spain, from the 19th century architect Tomás Toribio, first academic that arrived from Spain to Santiago Calatrava and his pedestrian swing bridge in Puerto Madero(Buenos Aires). An important reference"--Provided by vendor.

Este libro es una indagación valiente y demoledora de la obsesión arquitectónica de presidentes, primeros ministros, alcaldes, dictadores, magnates y otros personajes poderosos y en el endiosamiento de los arquitectos que se han puesto a su servicio. El resultado es una mirada ácida, rebosante de anécdotas entre bambalinas, sobre la arquitectura convertida en representación del poder y arma propagandística, y una reflexión crítica y polémica sobre las relaciones -interesadas, turbias, tensas- entre los arquitectos y los poderosos a lo largo del convulso siglo XX, y sobre los excesos ...

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 ...