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Build a deeper connection with your home and environment on an energetic level through everyday magic: a mix of mindfulness, rituals and intentional living.Whether you are based in an urban area or rural setting, have ample space or live somewhere more compact, this book will show you how changing the energy in your home can increase wellbeing in all parts of your life. East meets west throughout the book as Anjie Cho and Laura Morris offer meditative reflections and unique perspectives on how to work with the traditional practice of feng shui in a modern way, based on their own cultural experiences and practices. Each chapter presents a new concept through fun and engaging insights, reflections and hands-on exercises, from exploring colour and choosing plants to being mindful of the changing seasons. As you move through the book, you will not only learn the basics of feng shui, but you will also love how your home feels.

El trabajo de Baixas y Del Río, sobresale en la arquitectura latinoamericana. Ejemplo de lo mejor de la arquitectura chilena contemporánea, es una obra completa y contradictoria en que la modernidad tecnologica constructiva se encuentra en tension con las fuerzas de lo telurico. Sus edificios se apropian de los desarrollos de la epoca pero no olvidan en ancestro primitivo del hombre ni su pasado, es por esto que estan construidas con materiales industriales como vidrio, acero, aluminio, pero tambien de madera, piedra y concreto.

In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in response to the question How do we want to live now? it was Englands first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers. Jack Pritchard employed Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy in his newly formed Isokon design company and the furniture, architecture and graphic art the three produced in pre-war England helped shape Modern Britain.This book tells the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, and fully examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the book, as does Charlotte Perriand who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930.The book is beautifully illustrated with largely unseen archive photography, and includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards and letters from the Pritchard family archive. In Spring 2018, the Isokon building and Breuer,GropiusandMoholy-Nagy were honoured with a Blue Plaque from English Heritage.

El texto permite caminar por el proceso del diseño arquitectónico de una manera sencilla, posible y con ejemplos, lo cual facilita su comprensión. No solo es un texto que bien puede ser usado de referencia para el alumno, tambien para el catedratico se vuelve una guia de consulta o recordatorio para enseñar el proceso de diseño arquitectonico, que explica paso a paso los procedimientos, desde la entrevista con el cliente para conocer sus necesidades, pasando por las etapas de Analisis, Sintesis y Composicion, la adecuada definicion de las areas generadora y caracteristica del proyecto, con el apropiado manejo del concepto arquitectonico y los diferentes pasos para su concepcion arquitectonica, hasta llegar al punto culmine de la presentacion del proyecto, que, sin olvidar la existencia de esa labor creativa, provee de los elementos esenciales para el diseño y posterior construccion del proyecto "a la medida" del usuario.

Edición a cargo de Guillermo Takano. Con prólogo de Juan Carlos Doblado y ensayos de Enrique Bonilla di Tolla, Silvia Arango y Guillermo Takano Este volumen recoge una selección de textos escritos po