Martin Parr

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.

A compilation of essays that have been written by academics and professionals; from various points of view, perspectives and theories into post-modern architecture.

Desde la fecha de su primera edición en París en 1804, el tratado de arquitectura de Claude Nicolas Ledoux sigue siendo una obra de referencia. Estableciendo una compleja relación entre texto e imagen, literatura y arquitectura, el autor logró hacer de su tratado una verdadera autobiografía arquitectónica que ilustra, al mismo tiempo, ese profundo cambio producido entre la arquitectura del antiguo régimen y las necesidades funcionales, tecnológicas y sociales que la Revolución industrial estaba ya imprimiendo. La edición que ahora presentamos -primera en castellano- con inclusión...

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.