Gaudí

This book has become a classic. With photographs of extraordinary quality, is a copilation of architectural art works performed over the last decade. This book presents a visual history to analyze and evaluate the work of twenty different styles to create spaces and propose solutions where daily life takes place, between tradition and modernism.

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.

La obra de Borsi sobre Bernini es un clásico de la historiografía sobre la arquitectura barroca en Italia. La lectura de su arquitectura la realiza desde el supuesto berniniano de la unidad de las artes visuales, concepto atravesado por el teatro como cualidad de sus propuestas. Su arquitectura del exceso, como forma de hacer elocuente el poder de la Roma Triunfante de los Papas, es interpretada desde categorías históricas como la maravilla, la centralidad o la crítica a las reglas del clasicismo

The English edition of In Detail: Interior Spaces has sold over 5000 copies since it was released in 2002. This highly successful volume, looking at materials, lighting, colours and the technical aspects of interior design, is now also available in Romanic language editions.