Estética de la arquitectura

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

En este libro se ofrece un repaso a la biografia de este esplendido y conocido arquitecto, asi como a sus mas destacadas y conocidas creaciones.

This book pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photography. It rescues over one hundred original photographs of outstanding models - finally built or not built - in Spain during the twentieth-century. A modern, visual, critical and historiographical discourse of the first magnitude. Beyond the analysis of their technical or compositional structure, the book includes sample pictures by photographs like Catala- Roca, Kindel , Pando, Llado, Maspons - Ubina Gomez or Massats and architects as Aizpurua , de la Sota and Higueras

Análisis de la plaza del Obradoiro de Santiago de Compostela, con una introducción histórica y arquitectónica de la ciudad en su conjunto, y un estudio más concreto de la plaza en cuanto tal, cuyo espacio y arquitectura son el resumen de los momentos estelares y áureos de la ciudad: Catedral, Hospital Real, Colegio de San Jerónimo, Palacio arzobispal... El libro incluye más de 50 fotografías de Luis Asín, que proporcionan excelentes vistas arquitectónicas y urbanísticas de los monumentos compostelanos.