Rafael Urzúa

Barcelona is a city renowned for its daring design sense where all kinds of commercial spaces have been remodelled or newly created by adventurous architects and interior designers. This book focuses on a wide range of shops distinguished not only for their original architecture and innovative design but also for the uniqueness of the products they sell and for the manner in which they are displayed. ? This indispensable guide to the finest retail spaces in Barcelona is conveniently formatted to fit into any handbag, backpack, or briefcase and includes a site map for ease of use. ? Lavishly...

Mexico City Architecture Guide is a compilation of more than 150 works of architecture dating from the early 20th century up to the present day. To help orient readers, the guide is divided into five areas and includes seven maps to create a comprehensive panorama of the Mexican megalopolis. Each project includes details about the relevant architects, location and year of construction, as well as public transport information. The texts, photographs and maps created for this guide give fresh shape to the city. Now available in an English-language edition for the first time, Mexico City...

Known until recently for such public facilities as the Zamora Municipal Museum, the Castellón Fine Arts Museum and the León Auditorium, over the last few years Mansilla + Tuñón have developed a number of projects in which urban scale and the problems of inhabiting in the contemporary city assume more and more importance. In this issue of 2G we present the (almost) complete works of these Madrid architects, works grouped around the basic ideas which define their projects, namely memory and the city, system and restrictions, sameness and difference, and lastly trace and landscape. These...

Este libro no pretende ser una historia completa de la catedral giennense, sino unicamente la referida a su etapa renacentista (S. XVII-XVIII). Se limita, además, a los datos relativos a su construcción -inéditos en su mayoría-, tomados de las Actas Capitulares del Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Jaén, y del Archivo Municipal. Se trata de una recopilación de artículos, publicados en revistas de nuestro entorno cultural, reseñados en la Bibliografía. En sus seis capítulos se exponen noticias acerca de los principales arquitectos, sobre la construcción y sus constructores, las...