Casa de Hacienda: Arquitectura en el Campo Colombiano - Tapa dura

This colorful tour of Colombia's distinctive rural estates opens immediately to the same secluded and intimate beauty that Americans love in the plantation South--a distinct colonial-era flavor that has assumed new characteristics in adaptation to the landscape of a new world. The hacienda is most complete representation of the historic, aesthetic, and social values that converged in "Nueva Granada" as Colombia was first called. This book presents a selection of 42 residences each with outstanding traits of the hacienda house--a distinct building type of the Americas whose origins, virtues, and limitations are fully explained in an inviting combination of words and photography.

Germán Téllez is an architect, a historian and monument restorer, a member of the Colombian Academy of History, and an honorary architect member of the American Institute of Architects. He is also a professor of history of architecture and founder of the Centre for Aesthetic and Historical Research of the Universidad de Los Andes. Additionally, he is an architecture photographer and the author of several books in his native Spanish.