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.

Much more than an excellent gazetteer; this detailed study of the countys castles, monuments and towers shows who was responsible for the defence of the Anglo-Scottish border whilst Henry V was at Agincourt.Subsequent surveys show how in 1584 Christopher Dacre forwarded a bold project that linked a string of towers forming a defence against marauding Scots, suggesting new towers to stop gaps, with a dyke or defence joining them like a latter-day Hadrians Wall. Beyond this line were the many Peles or Bastles, home to the headsmen of the notorious reiving families, who were cursed in 1525 by bishops of Durham and Glasgow as punishment for their brutal way of life, giving rise to much legend and romance. Meanwhile, polite society occupied the large castles nestled amongst the coastal area still standing today for all to see.This history and gazetteer, with over 500 entries and plentiful illustrations and plans, will enhance your understanding of the history of the borders and their proud, turbulent past.

Este libro está dirigido a los recién graduados de arquitectura, ingeniería civil y maestros mayores de obras que quieran empezar a hacer su propio emprendimiento y con un anecdotario para hacer comprender al recien recibido cual es la realidad fuera del aula.

A stylish celebration of some of the greatest buildings in Britain, from the 20th century and beyond, by the countrys leading organisation for the protection of 20th century architecture.This fascinating book showcases 100 standout buildings from 1914 onwards, representing the broad variety of 20th century British architecture. The structures celebrated in this book include the Royal Festival Hall, the Hepworth Gallery, Preston Bus Station, Battersea Power Station, the Barbican Estate, the Aquatics Centre and many more. The glorious photography in 100 20th Century Buildings is accompanied by insightful text from a range of expert architectural writers and enthusiasts including Alan Powers, Owen Hatherley and Rowan Moore, along with several longer essays on different aspects of the 20th-century built environment: the late Gavin Stamp on the inter-war decades, the much missed Elain Harwood on post-war architecture and Timothy Brittain-Catlin on postmodernism.From factories to art galleries, churches to health centres, office blocks to individual private dwellings, this book provides a captivating overview of the 20th century built environment.

El libro propone un recorrido del exterior al interior: comienza por el emplazamiento y su entorno, sigue por las diversas envolventes del edificio y termina con el análisis de los aspectos ambientales de la iluminacion, la calefaccion y los sistemas de climatizacion. Un recorrido donde se exploran distintos temas transversales, como el ahorro de agua o materiales, la calidad ambiental interior o el uso de energias renovables. El conjunto ofrece una exploracion completa y metodica de la arquitectura ecologica exponiendo los temas clave, un marco teorico basico y estrategias concretas para proyectar bajo el paradigma de la sostenibilidad.Las ilustraciones que detallan estos principios y discusiones, realizadas por elmaestro Francis D. K. Ching, conforman una magnifica guia visual para el proyectoy la construccion de edificios ecologicos, y hacen de este libro un manual unicoe ineludible en el ambito de la arquitectura y la construccion sostenibles.

A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóri

As an industry that relies on extracted materials and an intense use of resources, isnt construction unsustainable by design? The pressure is increasing for the sector to diligently address the harm caused by the built environment, begging the question of whether real sustainability in architecture and planning is possible. As institutionalized and commodified greenwashing hollows out the term, how do architects and designers position their work beyond the inadequacy of a flattening universalistic understanding of sustainability? What forms of practice allow for accountable and revolutionized construction modes? How can we critically engage with technology as an ambivalent tool in the service of green capitalism. The first volume of a forthcoming series by RIOTResearch and Innovation On Territory, a laboratory within the Institute of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), On Architecture and Greenwashing presents a cross-section of positions on architecture and its political economies and explores ways to correct course in the face of a climate crisis of unprecedented magnitude beyond greenwashing.RIOTResearch and Innovation On Territoryis a laboratory engaged in pedagogy and research within the Institute of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), lead by architect and urban designer CHARLOTTE MALTERRE-BARTHES. Believing that the construction sector and design disciplines must pivot and wholeheartedly engage in the current social and climatic urgencies by rewiring themselves to face and repair the harm, RIOT utilizes tactics and strategies to decarbonize, decolonize, and depatriarchalize space productionby design.

A glorious global celebration of modern railway architecture in the mid-20th century and beyond.Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this one is different: a global study of railway architecture from the 1950s onwards and into the future. In 50 fascinating entries, renowned travel and architecture writer Christopher Beanland looks primarily at stations but also covers starkly brutalist signal boxes and depots, charming art-adorned undergrounds and international examples of pioneering signage and design.Station explores LAs iconic Union Station, the verdant Atocha Station in Madrid and Warsaws spectacular modernist stations, but it also includes less familiar examples such as Saudi Arabias high-speed Haramain Line, the joyous monorail at Walt Disney World Resort and Mexicos anticipated Tren Maya. The book also contains essays on topics including hanging railways in Germany and Japan, the intriguing architecture and design of Berlins U-Bahn stations and the joy of interrailing.Illustrated with glorious photographs throughout, this stylish and contemporary book is a celebration of modern railway architecture at its best and will appeal to rail enthusiasts and architecture aficionados alike.

El dibujo es una herramienta cognitiva y creativa fundamental a la hora de abordar el proyecto arquitectónico. Bajo esta premisa Francis D. K. Ching nos ofrece en este libro una guía de referencia con la que aprender a utilizar el dibujo como tecnica para pensar el proyecto.Organizado en tres grandes bloques que pasan de lo mas descriptivo a lo especulativo dibujo por observacion, sistemas convencionales de representacion grafica y dibujo imaginativo, el libro explica paso a paso la gran multiplicidad de conceptos y tecnicas que entran en juego en el dibujo arquitectonico: desde los principios basicos de la expresion grafica (la linea, la forma, la sombra o el espacio), hasta los sistemas de representacion mas frecuentes (el sistema diedrico, la axonometria y la perspectiva conica) o los innumerables conceptos y herramientas existentes (tales como el rayado, la orientacion, la escala, la estratificacion o la diagramacion).

Lively, irreverent and insightful.Lauren ElkinLike Jon Ronson on town planners ... Endlessly funny, seriously smart.John GrindrodCities are bad for us: polluted, noisy and fundamentally unnatural. We need green space, not concrete. Trees, not tower blocks. So goes the argument. But is it true? What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there? Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in deepest Wales, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often controversial roots of todays green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are - in all their raucous, constructed and artificial glory.

Hace ya casi cien años, una fastuosa edificación da la bienvenida a nuestra ciudad desde muy cerca de la Bahía de La Habana. El antiguo Palacio Presidencial, hoy Museo de la Revolución, ha sido testigo de relevantes acontecimientos de la vida politica, social y cultural cubana desde los tiempos republicanos, hasta los de intensas transformaciones revolucionarias a partir de 1959. La historia de tan significativa institucion es el apasionante tema de la nueva obra de Julio A. Marti, Refugio No. 1 De Palacio Presidencial a Museo de la Revolucion, que acoge en su catalogo la Editorial Capitan San Luis.

«Entre ambas realidades ha pasado el arrollador laminado de la historia que, ajena a la personal vivencia de sus habitantes, ha desembocado en la forma de hoy. Entenderla no es fácil sin atender al p

En La Alhambra de Felipe Trigo encontramos una obra que retrata la grandiosidad y la historia del emblemático palacio español. A través de una prosa elegante y detallada, Trigo nos sumerge en la belleza arquitectonica y cultural de la Alhambra, transportandonos a la epoca de esplendor de Al-Andalus. La narrativa esta impregnada de una profunda pasion por la historia y la arquitectura, lo que le otorga un valor unico en la literatura española. Felipe Trigo, reconocido escritor y critico literario español, contaba con un profundo conocimiento de la cultura y la historia de España, lo que se refleja en su obra La Alhambra. Su interes por la preservacion del patrimonio cultural español lo llevo a escribir esta obra maestra que cautiva a los lectores con su riqueza descriptiva y su profundo sentimiento por el legado historico del pais. Recomendaria La Alhambra a aquellos amantes de la historia, la arquitectura y la literatura española. Es una lectura imprescindible para aquellos que deseen sumergirse en la belleza y la grandeza de uno de los monumentos mas emblematicos de España.

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