City Embellishment Barcelona

Cities don't have to be faceless lines of gray boxes. City Embellishments Barcelona presents dozens of fresh ideas for bringing big cities back to a human scale. Small details like a carved facade, a tiny green space, benches, touches of bold colour, a sheltering doorway, planters, and more. Each of these warm, distinctive touches is expertly explained by the best authority available: the designing architects themselves. AUTHOR: Carles Broto, an architecture scholar and one of the founders of the IAC (institute for alternative culture). Following a successful period at the Atrium Group (Barcelona), he has now joined Grupo Links - Structure as the publishing director of various contemporary architecture collections. He is currently investigating the evolution of new American housing, as part of a multi-country project. He lives in Barcelona. ILLUSTRATIONS colour images, plans vdrawings