Wine & Design

Ver la arquitectura, entenderla y sentirla no es algo inmediato. Requiere un aprendizaje. Este libro es, ante todo, la apertura a un vocabulario, a un conjunto de términos a través de los cuales conceptualizamos y hacemos comunicable la experiencia de la arquitectura. Si, como dijera Wittgenstein, el conocimiento empieza en las palabras, entonces un libro de iniciación a la arquitectura es un libro que trata de glosar, de dotar de contenido ciertas palabras clave con las que, como si de una herramienta se tratara, hacer posible el montaje y el desmontaje de nuestra experiencia de la...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

Se estudian una serie de dibujos originales, ligados al proceso de proyecto y ejecución de diferentes edificios de Sevilla y su provincia en los primeros años del siglo XVII.