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Texts by M. Gausa, M. Cervello and M. Pla. Introduction by Mihail Moldoveanu. Text by Kenneth Frampton. Barcelona is among the world's most architecturally important cities, and this book is clear evidence why. Documenting the period from 1860 to the present, this study covers the famous works of Gaudi, of Jujol, and of Mies van der Rohe's Barcellona Pavillion proposal. Rationalist works from the fifties, large housing developments from the 1970s, the buildings from the Olympics: all of Barcelona's triumphs are covered here in detail.
What have been the general ideas about the growth of Barcelona over the last fifty years? Why were they so controversial? Why is the Metro still the Cinderella of the Metropolitan system? Who extended the Cerdà plan to the River Besòs? The answer to these questions and many more can be found in this book which explains a century of urbanism in Barcelona, stressing two key periods: the years in which Barcelona was conceived as a capital city and the years in which it was converted into a metropolis. The book closes by raising current topics that have dominated discussion about the city from the turn of the 20th Century and which are crucial to its future. The architect and university lecturer Josep Parcerisa offers us the keys to understanding the city and its recent history. Throughout the book, the reader will find more 300 images that often speak for themselves. For the first time, the urbanism of the city is explained and can be visualised at the same time.
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Whether Llinas is operating on a "leftover" lot in the city or building in the open landscape, he strives to make sense of the site: creating a public space to conclude an urban axis in one location; deploying the volumes of his new construction to reconcile the disparate scales of neighboring buildings in another; using an inventive corner treatment to enliven a bleak street in a third.
"El Libro blanco de la accesibilidad se estructura en una serie de capítulos en los que, a modo de fichas, se estudian la mejora de la accesibilidad y la supresión de barreras arquitectónicas. Es el resultado de una iniciativa del Comité Olímpico Internacional y la Fundació Barcelona Olímpica destinada a analizar la accesibilidad de los Juegos Olímpicos y Paralímpicos celebrados en Barcelona en 1992. En la presente edición en lengua castellana muchas de las situaciones analizadas giran en torno al evento olímpico; pero la mayor parte de ellas tienen también aplicación directa en el diseño de espacios y edificios laborales y en el trazado y mejora de polígonos industriales. El ...
Historical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spain’s democracy. This pioneering book seeks to fill that void. Between the late 1970s and early 1990s, Spain founded representative institutions, launched its welfare state, and devolved autonomy to its regions. The study brings forth the architectural incarnation of that threefold program as it deployed in the Valencian Country, a Catalan-speaking region on Spain’s Mediterranean shores. There, social democratic authorities mobilized architects, planners, and graphic artists to devise a newly open public sphere and to recover a local identity that Franco’s ...
Cada año, millones de personas pasan bajo las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino en espacios históricos de todos los Estados Unidos, desde la Sala de Registro de Ellis Island (1917) hasta el Biltmore Estate en las montañas de Carolina del Norte (1895), y desde el Capitolio del Estado de Nebraska (1932), en Lincoln, hasta los e dificios del campus de la Universidad Carnegie Mellon de Pittsburgh (1912). Sin embargo, son pocos los visitantes que aprecian la aportación de la familia valenciana Guastavino a la arquitectura estadounidense y las condiciones que propiciaron que las bóvedas tabicadas de Guastavino fueran durante décadas uno de los sistemas estructurales preferidos.