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Este libro ofrece un análisis técnico y teórico del papel del detalle en la arquitectura contemporánea. Los cincuenta ejemplos de proyectos residenciales recientes se ordenan en seis capítulos definidos por los materiales constructivos fundamentales: hormigón, vidrio, obra de fábrica, acero, madera y materiales alternativos (plásticos, paja, papel, aluminio, etc.). Cada uno de los ejemplos viene explicado mediante fotografías en color, plantas, alzados y secciones, y numerosos detalles constructivos que, junto a un texto descriptivo, permite una comprensión en profundidad de cada obra. Virginia McLeod estudió arquitectura en Australia y un máster de Historia y Teoría de la Arquitectura en la Architectural Association de Londres. Además de trabajar en diversos despachos de arquitectura en su país natal y en Londres, escribe y edita sobre temas de arquitectura. Es editora de The Phaidon atlas of contemporary world architecture (Phaidon, Lo

According to natural scientific logics, the size of creatures in nature is strictly linked to their form. A fly for example possesses a form that can absolutely not be increased. Should this still occur, the hence emerging monster would collapse, because his supporting elements, although proportionally increased, would not be capable of carrying the overweight. If we consider architecture as a phenomenon that follows the laws of the physical world, size and scale appear as initial conditions, under which architecture has to be pondered. This volume of Architectural Papers gathers a series of data, arguments and projects produced at our chair surrounding this theme. It hence represents material that was collected during this process of learning, although it aspires to reach a wider public. To teach (and to learn) architecture is not only about transferring knowledge but, in my opinion, primarily about producing knowledge. The large dimension of the transformations in our built environment that globalization has pandered represents a new methodological paradigm the project has to be confronted with. Here some questions related to planning will be treated, defending its role more as a structural one and less as a formalizing one, with the autonomous presence (although interrelated) of singular objects, which in our times appear recharged with great responsibility and which can no longer be based on already assumed continuities as maybe they could have in former times. A substantial part of this volume is composed of reflections regarding the European high building, as a new type more and more present in our everyday reality. To teach and to produce architecture means to participate in a wide dialogue, in which multiple voices, references, interlocutors have to interrelate. This book attempts to condensate a moment of this intellectual construction.

Textos de Sergio López-Piñeiro, Philip Ursprung y Manuel Ocaña.

In 1999, Barcelona won the Riba Royal Gold Medal for its unique architectural character--the first time that the winner has been a city and not an individual architect. Barcelona is without question an international benchmark for the architectural integration of old and new, and for its innovative additions to its skyline, as impressive new buildings continue to spring up. In the last decade alone, Jean Nouvel's Agbar Tower, Josep Llinas's Lesseps Library, Torres and Lapena's Forum Esplanade and Herzog and De Meuron's controversial Forum Building (often considered the icon of this new Barcelona) have all popped up--just a few notable instances of this present fervor for construction. Other contemporary architects who have recently designed buildings in Barcelona include Dominique Pewault, Toyo Ito, Frank O. Gehry and Carmen Pinos. BCN 10+10 looks back over the past 10 years of new architecture in Barcelona, and surveys the several projects to come in the next 10 years: among them three further projects by Jean Nouvel and Zaha Hadid's recently commissioned waterfront Spiralling Tower, planned for 2008.

Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, junio-septiembre 2007. Reúne una amplia selección de la colección de obras de Le Corbusier de Heidi Weber, incluyendo pinturas, esculturas, dibujos, tapices, esmaltes, grabados, litografías y muebles. Se presentan, además, numerosos documentos originales de la construcción del pabellón de Zurich y el cuadro La Caída de Barcelona.

En este volumen se incluyen 24 obras y proyectos, profusamente ilustrados con fotografías en color, planos y dibujos ,distribuidas en tres capítulos: Sanaa, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates y Office of

The starting point of an event is usually the desire to create something remarkable for a special occasion. Different disciplines like architecture, light and sound are brought into continually new areas of experience, which makes every event an one-of-a-kind happening. Also the requirements for decor and furniture for such events rise and the creative potential is huge. Nowadays big companies improve their corporate identity by celebrating marketing events and parties. Those events have become a major aspect of business communication: they create customer loyalty and strengthen the "we-feeling" of the company´s team. This book shows a selection of outstanding projects which can be perceived as a unified whole and have been consistently realized in their form and content. An index with contact information of the respective event agencies is enclosed.

An account of American bridge design, from familiar monuments to modest structures that offer eloquent statements of problems solved. Bridges are such ubiquitous features of the built environment that we cross most of them barely acknowledging their presence. Certain bridges, however, command attention: for their utility facilitating travel from here to there; for their size, setting, beauty, or historical associations. Ordinary or spellbinding, every bridge is a response to a problem"the spanning of a river or other obstacle, solved more or less elegantly. This visual sourcebook surveys American bridges from coast to coast in terms of four fundamental structural types (beam, arch, truss, and suspension) and the special category of movable bridges (swing, lift, and bascule) showing how similar structural ideas have been addressed by different designers, refined over time, and rendered in various building materials. A special feature is "A Call for Preservation" of the American bridge engineering heritage by Eric DeLony, formerly chief of the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service.

En este ensayo-estudio se aborda en profundidad el fenómeno social del cerramiento en fachadas y por primera vez se cuantifica su dimensión en una ciudad tipo, como es Zaragoza, con el recuento estadistico y analisis de sus edificios, entrevistando a todos los agentes que intervienen en esta gran transformacion urbanistica.

Libro que recoge las mejores construcciones y diseños del minimalismo en los últimos cinco años. Incluye trabajos de reconocidos arquitectos e interioristas de todo el mundo. Se estructura en tres grandes bloques: viviendas, oficinas y edificios públicos y espacios comercial. Se describen las características más importantes de cada proyecto y se ilustran con fotografías en color y dibujos de las plantas.

El paradigma del clasicismo y la asimilación de su significado durante centurias en el quehacer arquitectónico religioso, civil, doméstico, urbano, e incluso vernáculo, y más aún, su trascendencia como cimiento de creaciones netamente mexicanas es, sin duda, un asunto cuyo análisis merece ser examinado con amplitud y detenimiento. Este libro descubre este tema con una original visión en el análisis de la arquitectura y presenta al clasicismo como una tradición que evolucionó para alimentar las tendencias, los conceptos y las formas que se han convertido en piezas fundamentales del patrimonio cultural de México. El autor se ha propuesto reconocer este panorama a través de un análisis completo y preciso desde los asentamientos urbanos, hasta las grandes catedrales, templos, edificios civiles y construcciones vernáculas, pasando por retablos, columnas, portadas e incluso una que otra ventana en las que una mirada atenta capta reminiscencias clásicas. El lector podrá encontrar análisis arquitectónico de los casos más excepcionales que estimularán un recorrido acompasado durante el cual asimile la razón de ser, así como el ánimo que sirvió de inspiración al desarrollo arquitectónico histórico y cultural de un periodo en el acontecer de México que vale la pena explorar. Lo que el autor entrega en estas páginas es un motivo más para asombrarnos por cuanto la cultura arquitectónica y urbana de México ofrece; ha de estimular, asimismo, nuevos itinerarios que permitan enriquecer el conocimiento de estas disciplinas con temas como el que aquí se estudia.