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Desde el siglo XIX, la llamada novela histórica ha sido uno de los subgéneros literarios preferidos entre los lectores. Por eso, no es extraño que estas obras narrativas y las series de reconstrucción histórica en canales televisivos sean hoy fenómenos de audiencia inusitados: las nuevas generaciones tienen curiosidad y avidez por conocer el pasado, "su" pasado, el que también les pertenece como herederos de la tradición de Occidente; y, si además, se trata de obras que despiertan la imaginación y la fantasía, la tarea de llevarlas hasta ellos será grata y fructífera. Tais de...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

This edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the UPF, gathering articles by teachers, researchers an guest academics regarding different topics related to architecture and urbanism.

The author describes and discusses the influence Le Corbusier in Uruguay through a series of trips, the first done by the Swiss-French architect in 1929, and the remaining ones from the three Uruguayan architects who joined the workshop of the notable architect: Carlos Gómez Gavazzo, in 1933, Justino Serralta, in 1948, and Carlos Clémot, in 1949. The study also includes aspects of Antonio Bonet Castellana's trip, who was there in 1937 and in Uruguay from 1945 to 1948, and additionally analyzes what Eladio Dieste learned from his "Le Courvoisier partners" Serralta and Clémot as well as the...