Patrimonio arquitectónico del Valle del Aburrá

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

With the rapid developments in renewable resources over the last few years, environmentally-friendly housing is no longer the pipe-dream of a few radical architects and ecologists, it is now a firm reality. Small Eco Houses is a superbly illustrated volume that showcases the latest trends and architectural solutions for eco-housing. It also explores how research into alternative materials and new ways to apply traditional prime materials have paved the way for a whole new range of design options that mean aesthetics and comfort no longer have to be compromised to achieve sustainable...

Este libro presenta la edición del manuscrito castellano e.IV.5 (Biblioteca de El Escorial), que describe la coronación del rey Carlos VIII de Francia en mayo de 1484 y su entrada, dos meses más tarde, en París, en medio de celebraciones y festividades diversas. Si bien este manuscrito aparecía ya en los repertorios bibliográficos españoles, nunca hasta la fecha se había realizado ningún estudio sobre él ni se había editado, laguna que esta publicación y otros dos trabajos de las mismas autoras (López Izquierdo/Pons Rodríguez, 2015, y Pons Rodríguez/López Izquierdo, en...

Adolf Loos (1870-1933), riconosciuto come uno dei più significanti profeti dell'architettura moderna, era una star dei suoi tempi, conosciuto come un dandy audace e moralista che sfidava l'establishment. Le sue opere rappresentano non solo l'inizio del modernismo, ma introdussero anche il concetto di architettura degli spazi. Loos pubblicò anche numerosi saggi durante la sua vita, il più notevole dei quali è lo spesso incompreso "Ornament and crime". Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali