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Ezequiel Gabrielli, pintor y arquitecto, gravita con rigor entre la ciencia y el arte para investigar y analizar la arquitectura en distintos contextos, como el amazónico o el francés, desde el trabajo del urbanista Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Esta obra se divide en cuatro partes. En la primera hay una aproximación al entendimiento del pensamiento del maestro mediante su hoja de vida, documento que en sí mismo es una obra de arte y describe a grandes...
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Madrid Río es el proyecto más ambicioso de los que emprendió el que fue alcalde de la capital, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, el cual se convirtió en el emblema por el que trabajó durante dos legislaturas. Supuso una transformación integral de 5,4 km a lo largo del río Manzanares y la adecuación de 120 ha en varios distritos.
Plantear como proyecto fin de carrera la intervención real en edificios, tanto de nueva planta como rehabilitación, y...
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Pensamiento político de la emancipación venezolana contiene textos fundamentales escritos por los precursores de la revolución venezolana. Se incluyen el Discurso preliminar a los americanos , con que se prologó en 1767 la publicación de los Derechos del hombre y del ciudadano por los participantes en la conspiración de Manuel Gual y José María España ; los Planes de Gobierno de 1801 y la Proclama de Coro de 1806 , escrita por don Francisco...
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Meticulous reproduction of a rare catalog includes floor plans as well as exterior and interior views of 80 American homes, among them a handsome, three-story frame residence with six bedrooms and a cozy, three-room cottage measuring 18 feet by 22 feet. 94 black-and-white illustrations depict handsome stairways, French doors, and other amenities.
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Architecture and design may be topics too advanced for kids but they're great boosts to knowledge. It's recommended to introduce a variety of subjects to children to give them a chance to figure out their interests. Maybe your kids are into architecture and design? You'll know when you give them this book!
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Did you know that sometimes, history is as big as buildings? That's right; parts of history are seen in buildings and landmarks from around the world. What's interesting about these is the feats of engineering that people from the past endured and succeeded. In this book, you will be reading about some of the most famous historic buildings and landmarks today.
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It has required years of painstaking effort...to bring before prospective home builders the hundreds of practical, money saving ideas offered by this system... A little study of each plan shown will convince any thoughtful person that these are, in reality, the most carefully planned homes in America. - Better Homes at Lower Cost Faithfully reprinted from the Standard Homes Company's popular Better Homes at Lower Cost, this collection of early twentieth-century...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture documents a series of conversations with some of contemporary architecture's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners. The conversations took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne, with the hope of complementing lectures by visitors to the school. Where lectures gave insight into projects, these conversations dive deeper into the ideas and...
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Condemned man Archie Flowerdew is to hang for the murder of rival artist Percy Despart. Convinced of his innocence, Archie's niece, Tammy, persuades Evening Chronicle reporter Colin Crampton to take up the case, but the more Colin investigates, the more it looks like Archie is guilty. But, as Colin continues to probe he realizes that he is putting his job, and his life, in peril...Join Colin in this Swinging Sixties fun adventure, where the thrills...
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In 1943, Frank Lloyd Wright received a letter from Hilla Rebay, the art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim, asking the architect to design a new building to house Guggenheim's four-year-old Museum of Non-Objective Painting. The project evolved into a complex struggle pitting the architect against his clients, city officials, the art world and public opinion, but the resultant achievement testifies to both Wright's architectural genius and the adventurous...
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AOT no es solo una sigla para la arquitectura peruana contemporánea; durante más de cuarenta años probablemente fue la más organizada oficina de arquitectos que tuvo el Perú. Sus obras tuvieron una singular importancia, como en el caso del Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez, el edificio de Química Suiza o la sede de la IBM, entre otras edificaciones de las que el presente libro da cuenta.
Formado por los arquitectos Carlos Arana Holder,...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan, Wright Sites has been revised and expanded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the architect's birth in June 1867. The fourth edition of our best-selling...
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Sendas de la modernidad ha sido concebida como una serie abierta de publicaciones que ofrece una mirada comprensiva a los procesos de diversificación de las tradiciones modernas en arquitectura y ciudad. Académicamente estamos situados en la convergencia disciplinar de la historia y teoría de la arquitectura, la crítica cultural y social, y en un sentido amplio, los estudios del paisaje cultural. La investigación que soporta el seguimiento a...
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La publicación "El Diseño y la Arquitectura frente a los desafíos emergentes y futuros" crea un importante espacio de diálogo, reflexión y debate crítico, entre quienes dedican su trabajo a distintos campos del saber relacionados con la Arquitectura y el Diseño. Es posible conocer aquí diferentes discursos, pensamientos y sentires en torno a problemas académicos, sociales y disciplinares relevantes de la arquitectura, el diseño, las artes,...
15) Goes Soft
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From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design. In an era of declared crises-economic, ecological and climatic, among others-the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with...
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A handy guide to England's most dramatic castles and strongholds, many of which are open to visitors. Includes an eight-page map section showing the locations of castles covered in the book.
Features historical background and architectural details for each of the castles, accompanied by beautiful colour photographs. The book covers the major sites of Windsor, Warwick and Leeds Castle, as well as lesser known fortresses scattered across the country.
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San Antonio de Guajui es una aldea mayor del consejo comunitario Rio Guajui, uno de los seis consejos comunitarios del Municipio de Guapi Cauca. Queda en el área selvática del municipio. Población de vocación minera. Aldea mayor compuesta por mas de 200 familias con grandes problemas de saneamiento básico y viviendas con deficiencias constructivas. La comunidad de la Aldea mayor desde un ejercicio de Diseño participativo busca mejorar su hábitat...
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Una propuesta colectiva para plantear un nuevo escenario donde poder transformar las ciudades y los territorios donde desarrollamos nuestras vidas. Una propuesta que crecerá con las aportaciones de diferentes expertos en urbanismo, ecología y medio ambiente para presentarnos otras maneras de vivir posibles. Con cada nueva actualización podrás descargarde manera gratuita las nuevas aportaciones de los autores a este texto en crecimiento.
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Marshall Field III was 28 years of age and one of the richest people in the world when he came upon the idea of replicating the environment in which he had spent his youth. Raised and educated in England, Field sought the life of an English gentleman here in the United States. In 1921, Field purchased almost 2,000 acres of waterfront property on Long Island's North Shore, which would become Caumsett. Forty years later, Field's third wife, Ruth, opened...
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Parametric and algorithmic design are two of the fastest emerging, most radical technologies reshaping architecture today. This book presents six independent practices that explore current applications of parametric and algorithmic design techniques in architectural production. If the first generation of digital modeling programs allowed designers to conceive new forms and processes, a new breed of digital techniques is being discussed to control...
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