Libros de ARQUITECTURA Y VIVIENDA

POWERHOUSE COMPANY. OUVERTURES

Six years ago, Charles Bessard (*1970 in Paris) and Nanne de Ru (*1976 in Wageningen, The Netherlands) founded the Powerhouse Company for architecture, design, ...

ARCHITECTURE IN NETHERLANDS. YEARBOOK 2011/2012

For a quarter century now Architecture in the Netherlands has been an indispensable retrospective publication for anyone interested or professionally involved in Dutch architecture. ...

STELLA: FRANK STELLA. CONNECTIONS

The art of Frank Stella (born 1936) transcends the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture. Over the course of a five-decade career the artist ...

NALINI MALANI. IN SEARCH OF VANISHED BLOOD

Nalini Malani : In Search of Vanished Blood delves into the multifaceted background of a visionary artist whose work holds a mirror to six ...

DRECHSEL: KERSTIN DRECHSEL. HEAT STORAGE SYSTEMS

The watercolor-like oil paintings by Kerstin Drechsel (*1966 in Reinbek near Hamburg) are distinguished by their sensuality and remarkable sense of relaxation. The artist ...

WOMEN

Regardless of the clichés associated with Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Max Beckmann (1884-1950), and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in the 'public' private sphere, their exploration ...

WISSEL: STEFAN WISSEL. LATENT RESOURCES

Stefan Wissel (*1960 in Hamburg) plays an enigmatic, humorous game with colors and shapes. In his sculptural, installation-like works the Düsseldorf-based artist attempts to ...

MILHAZES: BEATRIZ MILHAZES

Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960) derives the basic motifs for her colorful, seductive paintings from the tropical flora and fauna of her homeland, ...

C3 Nº 332. LAND IN TUNE. BARGAIND TO VALUABLES, MALIK ARCHITECTURE

Here C3 highlights architecture's response to the landscape with 'Land in Tune', presenting a variety of projects, from a private house in the Cyclades ...

A+U Nº 499. SMALL AND SUSTAINABILITY. MATEUS,AFF,TYIN TEGNESTUE ARC, POTTGIESSER, TAILLIEU, EM2

This issue of a+u features projects of a small and sustainable nature. From the passive house in Bessancourt, France, by Karawitz Architecture and a ...

MILLENIUM OF AMSTERDAM. SPATIAL HISTORY OF A MARVELLOUS CITY

Author Fred Feddes threads together 40 stories about the original landscape of present-day Amsterdam, its reclamation, the changing relationship between water and land, and ...

NEW HORIZON IN KOREAN ARCHITECTURE

Inspired by the eponymous exhibition shown in Japan in December 2011, and following a recent trend of Korean modern architecture exhibited overseas, this in-depth ...

HISTORIA DEL PENSAMIENTO EN EL MUNDO ISLÁMICO III. EL PENSAMIENTO ISLAMICO DESDE IBN JALDUN HASTA NUESTR

Es frecuente que la filosofía y la literatura islámicas sean examinadas sólo desde la perspectiva de su hipotética influencia sobre la civilización occidental o ...

VENICE & VITRUVIUS

In about 35-25 B.C.E., the Roman architect Vitruvius produced his encyclopedic ten-book summary of the principles of Hellenistic architecture, De architectura (On Architecture). These ...

PRICE: UVEDALE PRICE (1747-1829). DECODING THE PICTURESQUE

Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work ...

VECCIARCHITETTI: CASA C. NAPOLI/ ITALY 2003- 2007

Ubicato nellarea nord di Napoli, lintervento ha interessato la sistemazione esterna del giardino e la realizzazione degli interni di un appartamento al piano terra ...

DIVERSERIGHE STUDIO: CASALOGICA. BOLOGNA/ ITALY 2009- 2010

Casalogica, realizzata nella pianura padana della Provincia di Bologna, si colloca in unarea di completamento del tessuto urbano caratterizzato dalla presenza di due edifici ...

NEOESTUDIO: PIAZZA GARIBALDI. FIRENZE/ ITALY 2009- 2010

Serrata da una cinta muraria medievale ancora intatta, racchiusa allinterno di un impianto urbano in cui i vuoti appaiono ancora prevalenti rispetto alla densità ...

SISTEMA ESPAÑOL DE REGISTRO INMOBILIARIO (I), EL

CREUS E CARRASCO ARQUITECTURA 2000-2012

Entiendo que socialmente se debería valorar mas la eficacia, la funcional y la técnica, como una obligación ética, pero también, en un sentido más ...