Alfonso el de las Navas

¿Y si los humanos, doce mil años atrás, hubiésemos caído en una trampa de la que no hemos sido capaces de escapar? Sapiens. Una historia gráfica. Los pilares de la civilización explica cómo la especie Homo sapiens pasó de ser nómada a sedentaria y empezó a trabajar más duro sin por ello mejorar su calidad de vida. Revela cómo el trigo se apoderó del mundo; cómo un improbable matrimonio entre un dios y un burócrata dio lugar a los primeros imperios; cómo laguerra, el hambre, las enfermedades y la desigualdad se convirtieron en parte esencial de la condición humana, y por qué ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El libro constituye un buen resumen de un debate entablado a lo largo del siglo xix y, fundamentalmente, el siglo xx. La relación entre interior y exterior, la verdad o falsedad del ornamento, la calidad estructural de las fachadas... Un debate capital en la Historia de la Arquitectura Contemporánea, que los autores estudian y analizan en la obra de algunos grandes arquitectos de estos dos siglos: Loos, Wrigst, Wagner, Hoffmann, Mies o Le Corbusier, entre otros.