La vivienda sigue constituyendo una inagotable fuente de inspiración para los arquitectos más influyentes de fin de siglo. Su carácter privado y personal ejerce una poderosa atracción: se trata de la intervención en un espacio para vivir. La vivienda, afectada en muchos casos po…
The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron. Photographer West Freeman evokes the romance o…
The Garden District of New Orleans has enthralled residents and visitors alike since it arose in the 1830's with its stately white-columned Greek Revival mansions and double-galleried Italianate houses decorated with lacy cast iron ...
New living in old houses
"To restore, to renovate, or to remodel; this is a choice that faces many owners and potential owners of older structures. In the introduction to this illuminating book, the author points out that the major part of the activity in this field is undertaken in the interests of res…
"The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate. Markets have boomed and bust and boomed again with residential property increasingly a focus of wealth accumulation practices. While…