Résultats pour "David" dans Architecture

Un recorrido fascinante y extraordinariamente ilustrado que explica como nunca antes las claves de la arquitectura. El arquitecto David Ferrer nos acompaña en estas páginas a lo largo de un itinerario lleno de etapas fascinantes: la civilización griega con los primeros edificios de nuestra...

“A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society” (Library Journal)—walls—and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live. With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls...

Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose is much more utilitarian than that. Still today we depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland, a ring of 19 towers built between 1811-1905, so called because they were constructed on desolate rock formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to withstand the power of its waves.