Casas internacional 183: Extremadura

Este exhaustivo y documentado estudio evolutivo sobre los Sevilla y Sevila, además de rescatarlos del olvido, discierne entre dos linajes alicantinos del siglo XVIII que por su similar homonimia se identificaron como uno solo, siendo distintos, y entre cuyos miembros figura el único y hasta ahora último corsario de ese siglo. Anclados en la rígida sociedad estamental, aplicaron su ingenio y tenaz trabajo, a imitación de otros modelos sociales, sobre un mismo marco económico en un intento por superar su humilde cuna. El autor es doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Alicante, con...

Inventory of architectural patrimony and popular culture in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The first part is devoted to architecture and monuments from Pre-Columbian , colonial, 19th and 20th century, with emphasis on Pre-Columbian cultures. Includes mural art and some information on archival holdings. The second half is devoted to folkart, crafts, local culinary history, folklore, fiestas at the village, town, city and state levels.

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.

The Magic Box, carried out by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is more than a public sports facility. It is a whole conceptual, urbanistic and constructive manifesto through the insertion of a radically contemporary building in a sensitive environment, which has helped to regenerate the southern edge of the city of Madrid and to round off the urban banks of the Manzanares River. The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview). It also includes a technical dossier dedicated to the construction of the building highly...