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¿Qué es 'lo infraestructural' y de qué manera nos ofrece unas lógicas propias que aplicar al proyecto de arquitectura contemporáneo? Estas son las preguntas que este libro pretende responder, ofreciendo una mirada nueva sobre la condición infraestructural como plenamente arquitectónica, multiescalar y definitivamente propia del territorio urbano contemporáneo. Tradicionalmente las infraestructuras han sido objeto de interés para generaciones...
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Este libro nace con vocación de reflejar, en una serie de fragmentos escritos, fotografiados y dibujados, una forma de ser y de estar, hablando de Arquitectura con cualquier pretexto, es mi forma de pensar y manera de enseñar. En el fondo, buscando cómo provocar que el alumno de arquitectura se enfrente con el PROYECTO. El resultado es una selección de lecciones y artículos, un caleidoscopio donde quedan reflejadas otras tantas reacciones a esta...
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El Grupo EMAT explora alternativas didácticas que permiten reunir experiencias acerca del "enseñar haciendo", con situaciones de ocurrencia cotidiana para sacar los ejercicios del laboratorio. Luego de 20 años investigando acerca del bienestar humano y el aminoramiento del impacto ambiental de las edificaciones, hay una extensa producción bibliográfica disciplinar, pero no se había hecho explícito el fundamento conceptual de este enfoque poco...
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An award-winning architect and educator demystifies the process of making architecture and explains why good architectural design matters.
The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environments in which we live, work, and play useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest.
What many don't realize is that professional architects design only about five...
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Profusely illustrated volume by 19th-century pioneer of professional art criticism offers valuable information on how to furnish a home tastefully and affordably. Charming, lucidly written text covers everything from firescreens, curtained archways, and Grandmother's cupboard to Tyrolian tables and chairs, a Dutch bedstead, and a French bureau with fine brass mounts.
46) An Illustrated Handbook of Hindu Temple Architecture: The Temples of Northern and Southern India
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A wonderful guide to the stunning temple architecture of India.
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Brown-Blodgett Company, a St. Paul, Minnesota-based home construction service, published a detailed plan book to help prospective homeowners of the 1930s choose architectural designs. This complete republication of the now-rare volume includes exterior photographs and floor plans for 100 of these charming structures. Floor plans, photographs, and line illustrations depict such classics as a two-story, six-room frame home with sun porch; a handsome...
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This profusely illustrated study offers a chronological view of Salem architecture from the town's settlement in 1626 to the cessation of Colonial development in 1818. Detailed descriptions and more than 250 rare illustrations of over 100 buildings, including the famed House of the Seven Gables, the Witch House, and more. 127 black-and-white plates.
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Una vez más la botadura de un barco lleno de ideas, de ideas expresadas a través de las palabras de los textos que conforman un libro. Un libro lleno de ideas transmitidas a través de los escritos claros de un conjunto de profesores y de arquitectos invitados a las clases de la Escuela TS de Arquitectura de Madrid. Todos ellos, los profesores que colaboran con el autor y los invitados, son extraordinariamente valiosos. Y todos ellos han elaborado...
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Peter Jefferson Smith was born in 1939 in Ely, Cambridgeshire. On completing his degree in history at Trinity College Cambridge, he came to live in Clapham, where he remained for the rest of his life. He joined the Civil Service and spent almost all of his career in what was then H M Customs and Excise, retiring in 1995 after seven years as Deputy Chairman. Much of Peter s spare time was devoted to historical research but he was also heavily involved...
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One could read the collection of essays herein as a political voice to architecture and the architecture profession, constantly gnawing away at the disciplinary, only to find favor in the imaginative, intellectually interesting and the creative. Beyond embodying a collection of thought on architecture and its discipline, the present collection of essays also serves as a not-so-veiled political program for the possibility of architecture.
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"Ten Books on Architecture", or "De Architectura", by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, is the most complete treatise on the subject of architecture to survive from antiquity and has influenced the construction and design of major buildings since the Renaissance. Vitruvius lived during the first century BC and was an important architect, as well as a civil and military engineer, in the Roman Empire. Vitruvius dedicated this work to his patron, the emperor...
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Society seems to be tied irrevocably to long-term patterns of resource use, and to producing unassimilatable waste, emissions, and ongoing environmental degradation. There also are seemingly irresolvable dilemmas between humanity and nature, society and ecology, and utility and beauty, where each decision we make seems to cause some harm. To change from our present path and resolve these, we must have the courage to break from traditions and use our...
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La vida cultural moderna de América Latina ha tenido su centro en la ciudad; es allí donde germinaron tendencias artísticas y proyectos intelectuales, donde se desplegaron utopías urbanísticas así como disputas ideológicas y políticas. Pero si esto es así, ¿qué características del entorno urbano le han dado a la cultura sus marcas singulares, y cómo pueden seguirse las huellas que iluminan ese proceso de interpenetración entre ciudad...
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El libro Más allá de la imagen. La arquitectura del artesano, es el resultado de varios artículos, conferencias, comentarios y algunas reflexiones escritas sobre la deriva de una arquitectura subyugada por el peso de la forma y apartada a cualquier razonamiento de servicio y compromiso con el hombre. Todos ellos han sido revisados desde la perspectiva del arquitecto artesano. Tras diversos debates y confrontaciones desarrolladas en los últimos...
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541 beautiful full-color architectural drawings illustrating the imaginative use of brickwork and terra-cotta appliqués in Victorian revival styles, reprinted from a rare portfolio by a well-known 19th-century French architect. Includes front and side elevations, floor plans, and detailed sections. 682 illustrations. Captions. Publisher's Note.
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Architecture is all around us - it is part of our lives, and its development is a central theme in the history of mankind. Learning to read a building is the route to understanding a major part of our cultural inheritance.
Collins Need to Know? How to Read a Building shows you how to analyses and interpret architectural features with confidence?
Have you ever wanted to be able to tell the difference between Tudor and mock-Tudor? Want to learn what...
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La arquitectura es más que una "poética casual" y este libro busca ahondar en sus rimas. Para ello, mediante un recorrido por las principales corrientes arquitectónicas con espíritu inconformista, Lorenzo Rocha busca darle el peso funcional y teórico que merece.
A través de la obra de Le Corbusier, Giancarlo de Carlo, Lacaton , Vassal, Alejandro Aravena y los principales ejemplos de la Costa este de Estados Unidos, este libro recorre las principales...
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