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La manera tradicional de concebir el lugar de trabajo está cambiando. Esto se debe, en parte, a un cambio de mentalidad en el sistema productivo, pues de lo que se trata en la actualidad es de motivar positivamente al trabajador para que realice su tarea de forma mas eficiente y para que sea, en definitiva, mas rentable. Conceptos relativamente modernos como ergonomia, empatia, motivacion, calidad y personalizacion, estan en la base de este cambio. Esta necesidad esta dando como resultado un cambio en la forma de enfocar y de compaginar vida familiar y laboral, y ello se plasma en el trabajo de arquitectos y diseñadores para transformar los conceptos de vivienda y oficina convencionales para adaptarlos a las nuevas exigencias.

Andreu World fabrica sillas, mesas, butacas y el mobiliario que está definiendo cómo van a ser los espacios de trabajo en el futuro: más sostenibles, saludables y confortables. La pandemia causada por la covid-19 ha provocado una transformacion de las oficinas, acelerada por la tecnologia, con el diseño como una de las herramientas para el cambio. Esta publicacion recoge diferentes ejemplos que lo ilustran y las reflexiones de los directores de las revistas mas influyentes, desde Interior Design hastaaFrame.

The Architectural Documents series sees the publication of the first monograph on one of the most extraordinary figures on the contemporary architectural scene, Toyo Ito of Japan (born in 1941). Since the 1970s Ito has been carrying out research into building materials, light and space, research which has led him to design buildings that he himself has defined as non material aerial structures, fluid and permeable spaces which avoid rigid compositional geometries. Over the years Ito has gradually simplified his language, and his works, the structure of which has increasingly lost importance, can be studied as a series of variations on the layering of the facade. His obsession with lightness and transparency are expressed to the full in the most important work of his creative career, the Sendai Mediatheque (19952001). This book, with an exceptional body of illustrations, presents the Japanese architects most significant projects, starting with the Aluminium House of 19701 through to the most recent project for the Mahler 4 office block in Amsterdam (200-1). The appendix includes a complete list of Toyo Ito`s works, a selection of his writings, as well as a biographical summary and up-to-date bibliography.

En este libro podemos entender y disfrutar desde una escritura precisa, la comprensión del posicionamiento cultural del arquitecto Toyo Ito, en el variado panorama del mundo globalizado. Federico Lerner desarrolla en estas paginas una narrativa que nos induce a decodificar lucidamente procesos imaginativos y realizaciones en una de las figuras referenciales en la arquitectura de nuestro tiempo. Entre las ideas, las analogias y las sutiles metaforas, son revisadas aqui las constelaciones de imagenes que han de constituir la dialectica del acto proyectual entre lo inteligible y lo sensible o entre la estetica y la ciencia en el devenir de un tiempo historico que fluye articulando lo virtual con lo real.

Una filosofía de la arquitectura no es algo que provenga sólo de la cabeza; es un todo, un resumen de nuestra experiencia que no puede formularse con palabras. Más aun, este conocimiento tiene que ver sin duda con nuestra vision de la sociedad, con nuestro espiritu critico, no con el conocimiento objetivo. Cada uno de nosotros experimenta intensas emociones personales, convicciones que son un soporte importante para nuestro intelecto. De como elevar estas preocupaciones personales a un nivel conceptual compartido es, en cualquier caso, el tema.

It has been said that the Sendai Mediatheque (2000), with its revolutionary approach to engineering, marks a turning point not only in Toyo Ito''s architecture but in contemporary architecture in general. Before Sendai, Ito''s work emphasized structural lightness and transparency, and what he saw as the ever-changing ''non-context'' of Japanese cities. But though Ito''s designs still show these early influences, after the Sendai Mediatheque he began to leave behind what he increasingly saw as the boring and inappropriate boxes favoured by modernism, and move toward a light, sensuous and often organic architecture that engages with the cities around it and the people who inhabit it.These ideas are exemplified in this unique volume, where Toyo Ito presents a selection of his projects, all extensively illustrated with photos, diagrams, drawings, and computer realizations. Each of the book''s projects and thematic sections is introduced with a short essay by Ito. The distinguished Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has provided an introduction to the book, while the well-known critics Dana Buntrock (USA) and Taro Igarashi (Japan) have contributed essays that provide valuable perspective on Ito''s complex works.

Los trabajos presentados en este libro reflejan una visión optimista del futuro. Las construcciones se presentan en áreas humildes y respetuosas a traves de su integración sistemica con el medio ambiente. Honesto en el uso de materiales, cada proyecto implementa estrategias sostenibles, como maderas de origen local, bloques de tierra comprimida, sistemas de captacion de agua, diseño pasivo, paisajismo nativo y produccion de energia renovable. Unicos en narrativa, contexto, historia y ubicacion, todos comparten un tema comun, la autoconciencia.

Kate Orff has an optimistic and transformative message about our world: we can bring together social and ecological systems to sustainably remake our cities and landscapes. Part monograph, part manual, part manife-sto, Toward an Urban Ecology reconceives urban landscape design as a form of activism, demonstrating how to move beyond familiar and increasingly outmoded ways of thinking about environmental, urban, and social issues as separate domains; and advocating for the synthesis of practice to create a truly urban ecology. In purely practical terms, SCAPE has already generated numerous tools and techniques that designers, policy makers, and communities can use to address some of the most pressing issues of our time, including the loss of biodiversity, the loss of social cohesion, and ecological degradation. Toward an Urban Ecology features numerous projects and select research from SCAPE, and conveys a range of strategies to engender a more resilient and inclusive built environment.

This extra-large reprint explores the design and construction of a remarkable building. Published in 1900 as a large folio by Gustave Eiffel himself in a limited edition of 500 copies, the original was never sold on the market but given and donated by Eiffel. Featuring 53 double-page plates of technical drawings explaining the design as well as 11 photographs of the construction, the book reveals the complex and fascinating process of bringing the tower to life.