The book contains pictures of Belgium historic buildings

Around 1900 Brussels underwent exceptional development due to its great prosperity. Art Nouveau was one of the most remarkable aspects of this period uniting economic strength and belgian cultural development and its international influence. This book, traces the many facets of the renewal and the major steps in the transformation of Brussels from 1870 to 1914

This well illustrated volume documents three months of Rotterdam-based exhibitions and events--organized jointly by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Dutch Photo Museum--exploring the many facets of Brazil's creative output. It gathers works by some of the country's greatest artists, architects and designers such as Rivane Neuenschwander, Iran do Espirito Santo, Ernesto Neto, Lucia Koch, Ricardo Basbaum, Renate Lucas, Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi and Paulo Mendes da Rocha, with a particular focus on Helio Oiticica, who died in 1980, and who is often heralded as the father of the country's culturally fluid aesthetic style