La Plaza Mayor y los orígenes del Madrid barroco

La obra reúne los escritos y lecciones dedicados al tema de la restauración por el autor a lo largo de los veinte años durante los cuales dirigió el "Istituto Centrale del Restauro", analizando el significado y los métodos del restauro y resaltando los criterios teóricos que han guiado las actividades del Centro.

Architectural study on the religious buildings of collective character built by the Jewish community of Buenos Aires in the 19t and 20th centuries and where the synagogues are the best examples. Their choices of architectural styles or languages responded to the historic moment when these buildings were constructed and respond to the preferences of each group according to their origin or its constructors or architects. The study analyses their morphology, mostly monumental, outside the city limits, and loaded inside and outside with ornaments and visible symbols of Judaism.

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

Dentro de la producción teórica de Ignasi de Solà-Morales, este libro recopila los textos de teoría arquitectónica de los siglos XIX y XX. El libro analiza diferentes orígenes de lo moderno en el siglo XIX, de la tradición francesa del beaux arts, Viollet-le-Duc o John Ruskin, para adentrarse en la teoría del siglo XX sobre la modernidad, de la mano de Walter Benjamin y sus ciudades capitales, la concepción del espacio público en la obra de Le Corbusier, Werner Hegemann y el Arte Cívico, o las contribuciones de historiadores como Sigfried Giedion y Manfredo Tafuri donde se intentan ...