El despertar de la cultura en la época contemporánea

"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...

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...

A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...

Los maestros de la modernidad convirtieron la arquitectura doméstica en un laboratorio de cajas de aire. Sus viviendas hicieron del espacio a una caja la patria de un nuevo tiempo por conquistar. Una nueva forma de habitar surgía al calor de una nueva técnica y de una renovada intimidad. La caja establecía la relación entre un hombre viejo y un mundo nuevo que había llegado casi sin esperarlo. El interior de la vivienda especulaba la expectativa de un mundo desconocido. Aquella caja guardaba en su interior a un hombre temeroso de un mundo con el que no contaba y no conocía. Su interior ...