Libros de PAÍSES: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

BRICK AND MARBLE IN THE MIDDLE AGE. NOTES OF A TOUR IN THE NORTH OF ITALY

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street (1824-81) was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-century Britain. ...

COMPLETE TAJ MAHAL AND THE RIVERFRONT GARDENS OF AGRA, THE

Now available in paperback and illustrated by hundreds of new photographs and drawings with an in-depth explanation of each building, Ebba Koch, the foremost ...

MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES OF PROVENCE, THE

True Provencal spirit comes alive here through photographs and evocative accounts of the best-loved of all French provinces. Provence is a land apart, a ...

MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES OF TUSCANY, THE

A celebration of one of the most rich and varied landscapes in Europe, here are thirty-six villages and towns from all over Tuscany chosen ...

PATTERN AND ORNAMENT IN THE ARTS OF INDIA

The richness of the arts of India is overwhelming, and perhaps most noticeably so in its architecture.This innovative volume reveals the exquisite detail of ...

IN TOUCH. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE EUROPE

European landscape architecture builds on a common horizon of understanding and yet produces quality works of very different expression and style. In touch explores ...

HOW TO MAKE JAPANESE HOUSE

Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. ...

HOLL: COLOR LIGHT TIME

In this publication, the current work of New York-based Steven Holl-an outstanding representative of contemporary American architecture-is the subject of a detailed examination that ...

KOULERMOS: PANOS KOULERMOS. OPERA COMPLETA

CAPITAL SPACES. THE MULTIPLE COMPLEX SPACES OF A GLOBAL CITY

In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of ...

HERTFORDSHIRE GARDEN HISTORY : GARDENS PLEASANT, GROVES DELICIOUS . VOL II

This second volume of Hertfordshire garden history considers how Hertfordshire's historic parks and gardens - some still existing, many others lost - have been ...

ARQUITECTURA VIVA Nº 144 BRASIL CONSTRUYE. DE RIO A SAO PABL, GEOMETRIAS GEOGRAFICAS.

Boldarini Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Urbanización Cantinho do Céu Biselli y Katchborian, CEU Pimentas Mendes da Rocha y Metro Arquitetos, Nueva Galería Leme Studio MK27, ...

A+U Nº 503. 12:08. LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS + HELSINKI ARCHITECTURE ( HERZOG&DE MEURON, POPULOUS, K2S)

This issue of a+u takes both the London 2012 Olympics and architecture firms from Helsinki as its main features. For the former, special focus ...

MACKINTOSH: VISITING CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH

Visitors to Glasgow in search of Mackintosh's buildings will have little difficulty in finding the School of Art, or even The Hill House at ...

AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES- SOUTH AFRICA

This seventh volume of the Delft School of Design series focuses on particular urban questions related to the South African urban context. The book ...

ENGLISH REGIONAL PLANNING 2000- 2010. LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up ...

LEARNING FROM THE JAPANESE CITY. LOOKING EAST IN URBAN DESIGN

Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, ...

NEW ORLEANS AND THE DESIGN MOMENT

Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the ...

AMERICAN PALACE, AN. CHICAGO'S SAMUEL M. NICKERSON HOUSE

An American Palace: Chicagos Samuel M. Nickerson House, explores the rich and varied history of one of Chicagos grandest Gilded Age residences. Commissioned by ...

CHICAGO MAKES MODERN. HOW CREATIVE MINDS CHANGED SOCIETY

Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern'from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings ...