Libros de ARQUITECTURA Y VIVIENDA

MIRADA DE MEDUSA,LA

En la mitología griega la gorgona Medusa tenía el poder de petrificar a quien la mirara a los ojos. Los científicos de los siglos ...

BBPR: PALAZZO DELLE POSTE, TELEGRAFI TE. TI. ALL'E42

WRIGHT: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

MENTE EN LA CAVERNA, LA "LA CONCIENCIA Y LOS ORIGENES DEL ARTE"

El arte que se creó en las profundidades de las cuevas de Europa occidental a finales del periodo glacial produce admiración y asombro a ...

CLERC: ALEXANDRE CLERC

Alexandre Clerc, the young Fribourg architect, and his team have already produced a notable number of high-quality buildings: small school buildings, for instance for ...

SOBEK: WERNER SOBEK: LIGHT WORKS

Werner Sobek is one of the leading engineers and structural designers of our time. His works have been awarded numerous distinctions and enjoy the ...

BELGIAN ARCHITECTS AND THEIR HOUSES II

Almost all architecture is designed on commission for a client, and the architect's design must always bend to the wishes or demands of that ...

POLO ARCHITECTS

Their many various achievements are featured in the book, but Mauro Poponcini and Patrick Lootens also take the time to reflect on architecture in ...

LE CORBUSIER: WHAT MOVES US? LE CORBUSIER ANS ASGER JORN IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is arguably most pronounced in ...

REDISCOVERING ARCHITECTURE. PAESTUM IN EIGHTEENTH- CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE AND THEORY

The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous ...

GLOBAL ACTIVISM. ART AND CONFLICT IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Today political protest often takes the form of spontaneous, noninstitutional, mass action. Mass protests during the Arab Spring showed that established systems of power ...

URBAN PLANNIG IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. COLONIAL AND POST- COLONIAL PLANNING CULTURES

Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This ...

LE CORBUSIER: LE CORBUSIER AND THE GRASS LAMP

The truth is, decorative art is equipment, beautiful equipment," Le Corbusier, L'Art decoratif d'aujourd'hui This book traces the history of an encounter between a ...

THINK VINTAGE

In Think Vintage Piet Swimberghe and Jan Verlinde guide you through some of the most beautiful vintage interiors. 'Vintage' is perceived in a different ...

LACROIX CHESSEX: DE AEDIBUS 56

In 2013, Hieronyme Lacroix and Simon Chessex produced a student housing development close to the Geneva railway lines that represents exemplary urban architecture, with ...

KRISCHANITZ: SUPERBLOCK WINTERTHUR. A PROJECT WITH ARCHITECT KRISCHANITZ

The Superblock in the Swiss city of Winterthur is the winning design for the conversion of a former industrial site in today's heart of ...

HABITAT MAROCAIN DOCUMENTS. DYNAICS BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL HOUSING

The Habitat Marocain housing project was built in Casablanca between 1954-56 by two Swiss architects, Jean Hentsch (1921-84) and Andre Studer (1926-2007). The complex ...

HOUSE OF SWITZERLAND. A DICTIONARY OF ELEMENTS

The House of Switzerland is a relocatable building serving as Switzerland's official visitor centre at major international events. Its operational premiere were the 2014 ...

KAZI: FAWARD KAZI. ETH ZURICH BUILDING LEE

ETH Zurich's new building LEE is an extraordinary project from both an urban planning and an architectural design perspective. Located on a slope above ...

PHOTO ARCHIVES AND THE IDEA OF NATION

The question of the (photographic) construction and representation of national identity is not limited to the 'long 19th century', but is a current issue ...