Barcelona y Gaudí

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

High-end hotels have always been the setting for style and fantasy, a venue to see and be seen. This volume explores a relatively new trend, where major fashion houses take over the running of upscale hostelries. With every detail coordinated, from bed linens, to d????cor, china and glassware, the overall effect is of a chic jewel box, where every piece shines. We get a peek at glamorous hotels conceived and run with flair, by major fashion players like Bulgari, Christian Lacroix, Ferragamo, and Versace.

The work of the Colombian architect Harold Martínez Espinal, shows a way to purposeful way of thinking the architecture in the suburbs. This book makes a journey from his first works in the 1960's and 1970's, determined by the influence of modern architecture, until the beginning of the second millennium where his thought continues.

Teniendo en cuenta que la industria de la construcción consume alrededor del 50% de los recursos naturales mundiales, situación que la convierte en la actividad del hombre menos sostenible del planeta, resulta necesario para el arquitecto, en tanto diseñador del hábitat, pensar en un cambio paradigmático hacia el desarrollo sustentable, a fin de asegurar la satisfacción de las necesidades del hombre, no solo actuales, sino también de las generaciones futuras. Este cambio de paradigma hacia el desarrollo sustentable implica una apertura en tres aspectos fundamentales del pensamiento y...