Libros de ARQUITECTURA Y VIVIENDA

JULIEN-DAVID LEROY AND THE MAKING OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724-1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy. Despite not ...

RISING CURRENTS PROJECTS FOR NEW YORK WATERFRONT

In the fall of 2009, The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 selected five interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and landscape designers to ...

THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH GARDENER. PLANTS, BOOKS AND INSPIRATION 1560 - 1660

In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England. Ideas were ...

A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

E.H. Gombrich's "Little History of the World", though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication ...

JONES: INIGO JONES. THE ARCHITET OF KINGS

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles ...

RETHINKING DESIGN AND INTERIORS. HUMAN BEINGS IN THE BUILD ENVIRONMENT

The world and the people living in it are increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the ...

BERLIN INTHE 20S

Berlin in the 1920s was home to some of the most extraordinary minds of modern times, and was a vigorous melting pot of radical ...

BIOGRAPHY OF A BUILDING, THE. HOW ROBERT SAINSBURY AND NORMAN FOSTER. BUILT A GREAT MUSEUM

The Biography of a Building" tells the remarkable story of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, built ...

NEW ASIAN INTERIORS

Asia is booming - not only in terms of population, but also in interior design and architecture, and in the decorative and fine arts. ...

THE GREAT BUILDERS

The Great Builders" surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of ...

PERFORMALISM. FORM AND PERFORMANCE IN DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE

Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of ...

NANO HOUSE. INNOVATIONS FOR SMALL DWELLINGS

Drawing on the success of "XS" series, "Nano House" presents 43 examples of the most innovative, most ingenious and most responsible designs for small-scale ...

RADICAL PROTOTYPES. ALAN KAPROW AND THE INVENTION OF HAPPENINGS

Happenings" have pop connotations that conjure up 1960s youth culture and hippies in public, joyful rebellion. Scholars, meanwhile, locate happenings in a genealogy of ...

TABLAS DEL BALDAQUINO DE LAS BERNARDAS

El Monasterio Cisterciense de San Bernardo es una de las más excepcionales obras del barroco madrileño. Su extraordinaria arquitectura, la potente fábrica de su ...

TORAFU ARCHITECTS. IDEA + PROCESS 2004 -2011

Founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro, Torafu Architects employs a working approach based on architectural thinking. Works by the duo include ...

MORPHOSIS. 09 DESIGN PEAK

Recently realized projects by Morphosis include the Hypo Alpe-Adria Center in Klagenfurt, the Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in Los Angeles, the University of Cincinnati ...

DISCOVERING LONDON'S DOCKLANDS

Thriving port, dereliction, renaissance as a vibrant business center: few places in Britain have seen such extreme changes of fortune as London's Docklands. This ...

ARTE Y CREACION. LOS CAMINOS DE LA ESTETICA

No existen definiciones absolutas del arte. Cualquier intento que se haga en ese sentido -con vistas a encorsetar en un concepto la creación estética- ...

FOLEY: ARTIFICE. DERMOT FOLET LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

GEOMETRY OF DESIGN. SECOND EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED

The very first volume in our acclaimed Design Briefs series is now available in a revised and updated second edition. Geometry of Design is ...