Title: Habitar la cubierta = Dwelling on the roof /
Authors: Martinez, André.
Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Penthouses.; Architecture, Domestic; Roofs Design and construction; Architecture and society; Architectural design.; Roofs.
Abstract: "Dwelling on the roof attempts to uncover the reasons behind this time-honoured impulse, to make sense of its historical periodisation and to analyse its formal expressions. The result is a hybrid essay involving theory, history and building design."--Back cover.
Contents: The precursors, atemporality and artifice -- 1850-1950. The blossoming of the turn of the century -- The drift towards contemporaneity.