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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...

«... El material, detalle y estructura de un edificio forman en conjunto una condición absoluta. El potencial de la arquitectua reside en conferir significados auténticos a lo que vemos, olemos y tocamos. la tectónica es fundamental para nuestro sentidos. El nuevo libro de Kenneth Frampton es fundamental para arquitectos, estudiantes y cualquier interesado en los secretos de la arquitectura...» Rafael moneo, catedrático de Arquitectura, Universidad de Harvard, Graduate School of Design.

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

Mantova (Mantua), capital de Matilde di Canossa y de la familia Gonzaga, es una isla encantada rodeada por tres lagos formados por el Mincio. La impresionante escenografía de la época de los Gonzaga, los maravillosos frescos de los Mantegna, las fabulosas invenciones de Giulio Romano en el Palacio del Té, las iglesias, las casas patricias cuentan la historia. A pocos kilómetros de Mantua, podemos admirar el hermoso santuario de la Beata Vergine alle Grazie, la abadía benedictina de Polirone en San Benedetto Po, las pequeñas parroquias del pueblo y los antiguos tribunales. En la fértil...

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...