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Ambientes Sofisticados
  • Language: en

Ambientes Sofisticados

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The projects in this beautiful large-scale collection spring from a range of influences, from international design to residential architecture. Exploring the elements that bring together dreams and spaces, sensations and materials,Houses: Sophisticated Environments also highlights the need for creative solutions. Each example is analyzed in depth, from the general structure to the smallest detail, to show how each house assumes its own identity and life while still blending in with its natural surroundings.

The Lara Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

The Lara Family

For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Proteges of the monarchy at the time of El Cid, their influence reached extraordinary heights during the struggle against the Moors. Hand-in-glove with successive kings, they gathered an impressive array of military and political positions across the Iberian Peninsula. But cooperation gave way to confrontation, as the family was pitted against the crown in a series of civil wars. This book, the first modern study of the Laras, explores the causes of change in the dynamics of power, and narrates the dramatic story of the events that overtook the family. The Laras' militant quest for territorial strength and the conflict with the monarchy led toward a fatal end, but anticipated a form of aristocratic power that long outlived the family. The noble elite would come to dominate Spanish society in the coming centuries, and the Lara family provides important lessons for students of the history of nobility, monarchy, and power in the medieval and early modern world.

Dawn of a Dynasty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 556

Dawn of a Dynasty

This highly original biography of Infante Manuel offers an intriguing and alternative perspective on one of the most turbulent eras of medieval Spain.

The Learned King
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Learned King

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Casas en la Costa 2
  • Language: en

Casas en la Costa 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: AM Editores

'Coastal Homes' shows how the natural surroundings of the seaside can inspire and give shape to original architectural designs that can fit in seamlessly with the coastal landscape.

The First Asians in the Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

The First Asians in the Americas

Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in Mexico, diverse Asian peoples became "chinos" subject to the colonial caste system. Tracing Asian resistance and adaptation to New Spanish ideas of race, Luis presents a Pacific-focused narrative of the colonial Americas.

Interiores mexicanos
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 198

Interiores mexicanos

In architecture, exterior space has to do with shape, image and integration to the context while interior space responds to personal conditions of the user, to the user's finances, habits and daily needs, but always achieving its primary goal that is to make people's lives pleasurable. Mexican Interiors starts a new series focused on decoration and diversity of styles and shapes; it is an answer from the imagination and the creative expression of the architect to the needs and tastes of users. Book jacket.

The Reign of Edward II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Reign of Edward II

A new review of the most significant issues of Edward II's reign. Edward II presided over a turbulent and politically charged period of English history, but to date he has been relatively neglected in comparison to other fourteenth and fifteenth-century kings. This book offers a significant re-appraisal of a much maligned monarch and his historical importance, making use of the latest empirical research and revisionist theories, and concentrating on people and personalities, perceptions and expectations, rather than dry constitutional analysis. Papers consider both the institutional and the personal facets of Edward II's life and rule: his sexual reputation, the royal court, the role of the king's household knights, the nature of law and parliament in the reign, and England's relations with Ireland and Europe. Contributors: J.S. HAMILTON, W.M. ORMROD, IAN MORTIMER, MICHAEL PRESTWICH, ALISTAIR TEBBIT, W.R. CHILDS, PAUL DRYBURGH, ANTHONY MUSSON, GWILYM DODD, ALISON MARSHALL, MARTYN LAWRENCE, SEYMOUR PHILLIPS.

The Temple of the Andes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 94

The Temple of the Andes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1884
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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