Arquitectura sagrada

Los textos escritos con una prosa de denso y riguroso estilo literario, tienden siempre a ser lecciones didácticas en las que al discurso racional y metódico se une el discurso irracional que, señalando lo anómalo y lo contradictorio de gran parte de las realizaciones monumentales, recalca la duplicidad de la condición estructural y atemporal de la arquitectura Con sus obras teóricas y didascálicas contribuye a difundir el conocimiento acerca del arte de la edificación, siguiendo la tradición que desde Vitruvio, pasando por Alberti hasta Le Corbusier, ha constituido un corpus de...

A collection of articles from experts in different fields on Valencian architecture from the medieval to modern era, focusing on vaulted systems, and based on the idea that architecture begins with the conception of an idea and ends with the disappearance of the architectural work. This book seeks to combine the history of architecture with an investigation into distinct architectural forms of expression and representation.

A major critical study by noted architect and researcher Ramón Gutiérrez on the different phases of the history and evolution of the architectural patrimony of Paraguay spanning from primitive and colonial times to present days. The book includes a large collection of period photographs and color reproductions of the watercolors of the city of Asuncion done between 1855 and 1856 by French traveler Francisco Vincent of colonial and old Asuncion that graphically document how the original urban profile of Asunción has paid the tribute of the urban development and progress sacrificing its most ...

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...