Cuadernos sudamericanos: Roberto Frangella

Una buena guia que recoge todos los lugares interesantes de la ciudad de Ubeda, que hace historia de la misma y esta ilustrada con fotografias de los edificios y lugares relevantes.

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

De pronto, la ciudad por antonomasia del desierto, Las Vegas, cumple cien años. Una existencia longeva, sin duda, para un non-place que brotó casi accidentalmente en unos parajes tan inhóspitos y vacíos como eran los altiplanos de Nevada. Tras una gestación no muy distinta en avatares a la de cualquier otra town del lejano y salvaje Oeste, experimentó una agitada y prolongada adolescencia, hasta que durante los años sesenta del siglo pasado alcanzó una mayoría de edad urdida en las trastiendas de los centros más acendrados del Mob, ambientada en los ruidos cansinos de las ruletas y...