Havana, Cuba, an architectural guide

Este libro recoge algunas de las obras más significativas de la producción europea del arquitecto suizo y otras menos conocidas para el lector no especialista, pero de indudable interés. El título del libro, Le Corbusier. Promenades, condensa el criterio que se ha seguido en su concepción y estructura: un encadenamiento de imágenes que describen de un modo narrativo los diferentes espacios que constituyen cada obra. El discurso fotográfico se apoya y completa con informaciones literarias y gráficas del propio Le Corbusier, estrechamente relacionadas con las imágenes, facilitando así ...

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.

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...

This the third book of the series prepared to spread and promote Mexican residential architecture, a style that is more and more pure and bright. Mexican residential architecture has succeeded in integrating proportion, functionality, context and materials for the pleasure of the persons who create or live in these homes.