Joyas de Cantabria

Llus Domnech i Montaner is the author of such extraordinary buildings as the Palau de la Msica, the museum of zoology and the hospital of Sant Pau. This publication gathers a collection of articles that treat the same works and present-day photographic material.

"Critical study and research of the life and architecture of Urzúa (b. Mexico) who along architects Luis Barragán and Ignacio Díaz Morales started the localartistic movement known as "regionalismo" in Guadalajara. The edition is divided in 3 sections: his life, closely related to his architecture, an illustrated catalogue of his life production and acollection of facsimile copies of documents from his personal archives"--Provided by vendor.

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

Conjunto de conocimientos matemáticos que pueden aplicarse en Arquitectura, tanto durante la carrera como en el ejercicio de esa profesión. El autor se detiene en el análisis de los conceptos matemáticos que sustentan las grandes obras de la arquitectura mundial: el irracional número de oro en el planteo arquitectónico del Partenón, o el cilindro elíptico en el diseño del Coliseo de Roma, o el número pi, o la estructura de teselados. Así, desfilan por las páginas de este libro, conceptos de geometría del espacio, geometría analítica, trigonometría, análisis matemático, entre ...