Biblioteca Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Who ever said you can't have it all? This highly useful and decorative guide profiles lodgings around the world where you can enjoy the hippest of hospitality without breaking the bank. Including affordable hotels in locales as varied as Amsterdam and Cape Town, this guide makes sure your vacation fantasies can become reality.

El legado de Frederick Law Olmsted es mucho más célebre que su nombre. Millones de personas continúan disfrutando de los espacios que imaginó y diseñó hace más de un siglo y que reconocemos sin haberlos visitado: el Central Park de Nueva York, el parque nacional de Yosemite en California, los jardines del Capitolio en Washington, entre otros. Los cuatro textos aquí reunidos, por primera vez en español, exponen la importancia de crear reservas naturales salvaguardando su libre acceso y recorrido; explican la necesidad de planificar la presencia de la naturaleza en las ciudades;...

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...