El dibujo de arquitectura

Este libro trata de los estilos y las tendencias de la primera mitad del siglo XX que están ausentes o son marginales en las historias de la arquitectura moderna, pero que fueron importantes e influyentes en la época en la que nacieron. En el texto se analizan los movimientos expresionistas y simbolistas tanto como los estilos épicos modernos, el Futurismo, el Art Déco, el Novecento, la arquitectura metafísica, el monumentalismo industrial babilónico y los diversos tipos de clasicismo. Con ello se pretende restituir toda su riqueza y complejidad a la historia de la arquitectura moderna...

Recopilación de trabajos de investigación sobre la arquitectura cubana realizados por historiadores, arquitectos y profesores de las escuelas cubanas de arquitectura, y que contribuyen a la valoración del patrimonio arquitectónico colonial.

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...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.