Libros de ARQUITECTURA Y VIVIENDA

LA PROSPERIDAD. 1862-2012

La Prosperidad 1862-2012 es un libro que traza un excepcional recorrido por la desconocida historia de este barrio madrileño. En sus páginas, los textos ...

ARQUITECTURA VIVA Nº 144 BRASIL CONSTRUYE. DE RIO A SAO PABL, GEOMETRIAS GEOGRAFICAS.

Boldarini Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Urbanización Cantinho do Céu Biselli y Katchborian, CEU Pimentas Mendes da Rocha y Metro Arquitetos, Nueva Galería Leme Studio MK27, ...

VOLUME Nº 32. NEW ORDER. CATALOGUE INSIDE

Centres are on the move, and so are peripheries. As the world grows more complex different systems are claiming different territories. Centres become peripheries ...

CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN THE AGE OF HISTORICISM

Architects in the 19th century worked in a time of transition, of varied opinions and emerging techniques, of changing ideas and practices. Research into ...

METABOLISM TRIP

'Metabolism Trip' is a collection of photographs and short stories of Charlie Koolhaas' journey along many of the remaining buildings of the Metabolist Movement. ...

AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES- SOUTH AFRICA

This seventh volume of the Delft School of Design series focuses on particular urban questions related to the South African urban context. The book ...

MEMPHIS UNDER THE PTOLEMIES

Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ...

LIVING AS FORM. SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART FROM 1991- 2011

Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced ...

REMARKS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES ESPECIALLY OF ITALY

Professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Robert Willis (1800-75) mostly lectured on mechanism, and was elected an honorary member ...

BYZANTIUM AND ISLAM. AGE OF TRANSITION

This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period ...

LEARNING FROM THE JAPANESE CITY. LOOKING EAST IN URBAN DESIGN

Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, ...

ENGLISH REGIONAL PLANNING 2000- 2010. LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up ...

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN VERSUS CONSUMERISM. HOW DESIGN ACTIVISM CONFRONTS GROWTH

The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. ...

NEW ORLEANS AND THE DESIGN MOMENT

Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the ...

STAR Nº 15. MUROS CORTINA CON CABLES PRETENSADOS. MURO CORTINA DE LA TERMINAL DEL AEROPUERTO DE MALAGA

CONARQUITECTURA Nº43 EDIFICIOS PUBLICOS

1 Nuevo Ayuntamiento Santa Marta de Tormes, Salamanca Emilio Sánchez Gil, Fernando Sánchez Cuadrado y Emilio Sánchez Cuadrado 2 Centro de asistencia primaria Badalona, ...

ON THE ANIMATION OF THE INORGANIC. ART, ARCHITECTURE AND THE EXTENSION OFLIFE

Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe ...

CHICAGO MAKES MODERN. HOW CREATIVE MINDS CHANGED SOCIETY

Chicago is a city dedicated to the modern'from the skyscrapers that punctuate its skyline to the spirited style that inflects many of its dwellings ...

AMERICAN PALACE, AN. CHICAGO'S SAMUEL M. NICKERSON HOUSE

An American Palace: Chicagos Samuel M. Nickerson House, explores the rich and varied history of one of Chicagos grandest Gilded Age residences. Commissioned by ...

AN AUDIENCE OF ARTISTS. DADA, NEO- DADA, AND THE EMERGENCE OF ABSTRACT EXPRESIONISM

The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns ...