Castillos y fortificaciones de Galicia

A mediados del XIX el Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, impulsado por la necesidad de extinguir la mendicidad en las calles de la capital, fundó el Asilo de Mendicidad de San Fernando para recoger en él a cuantos niños y mayores que, bien por su avanzada edad o por encontrarse desamparados y en la orfandad, necesitaran ser asistidos.

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

CONTENIDO: PRIMERA PARTE: RELATOS DE SU VIDA: La formacion.- La Escuela de Arquitectura.- Iniciacion en la practica.- En busca de la nueva arquitectura.- La etapa radical.- La Escuela Superior de Ingenieria y Arquitectura.- Las inquietudes politicas.- El movimiento de 1938.- El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.- Los libros.- El movimiento de integracion plastica.- SEGUNDA PARTE: LOS ULTIMOS ESCRITOS: Mi evolucion como arquitecto.- Los proyectos y las obras.- Racionalismo y monotonia.- Evolucion del Racionalismo.- ldeario.- Estetica urbana.- El espacio exterior no es espacio privado.- El...