Bravo por tu casa

High-end hotels have always been the setting for style and fantasy, a venue to see and be seen. This volume explores a relatively new trend, where major fashion houses take over the running of upscale hostelries. With every detail coordinated, from bed linens, to d????cor, china and glassware, the overall effect is of a chic jewel box, where every piece shines. We get a peek at glamorous hotels conceived and run with flair, by major fashion players like Bulgari, Christian Lacroix, Ferragamo, and Versace.

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...

A collection of writings by Enrique Yañez to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death. The text presents an approach to life and observations of the architect, covering the fields of architecture, its social function, urbanism, society and culture.

La obra del arquitecto Fernán Bravo es fruto de casi cincuenta años de practicar el arte de la Arquitectura en Argentina, España, Brasil y Guinea. Se trata, buscando una síntesis, de una suerte de enciclopedia o una memoria integral de lo que piensa y de lo que hizo en su profesión, algo absolutamente único. En realidad hablamos de enciclopedia porque en cada item de esta calificada, sugerente sabia muestra de lo que hizo y pensó campea como un hilo sugerente y sutil un humor irónico, frases que sintetizan un pensamiento humanístico y encuadrado perfectamente en cada una de las...