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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form- but it remains mysterious to most of us.
In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and...
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La rencontre entre le cinéma et l'histoire a toujours fasciné: du Cuirassé Potemkine à Hannah Arendt, en passant par Autant en emporte le vent, Barry Lyndon, Le retour de Martin Guerre et Little Big Man, la plupart des gens découvrent le passé en regardant des films. De fait, la fréquentation des salles de cinéma façonne davantage la culture historique du citoyen moyen que celle des salles de cours. En partant de ce constat, Bruno Ramirez...
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eBook Interactivo. El hierro, el cemento y el vidrio revolucionan la construcción del siglo XX que dan lugar a dos grandes estilos: el racionalismo y la arquitectura orgánica, cuyos representantes más destacados fueron sin duda Le Corbusier y Lloyd Wright, entre otros muchos autores que transforman definitivamente la construcción arquitectónica. Los rascacielos ponen la nota imperativa del nuevo siglo y se extienden por todo el mundo.
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In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, urbanization, and postwar reconstruction-and it eventually won widespread acceptance. But as the limitations of conventional conceptions of modernism became apparent, modern architecture has come under increasing criticism. In this collection of essays, experienced and emerging scholars take a fresh look at postwar modern architecture...
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Las sorprendentes mutaciones que se presentaron a partir del 2010 tanto en el contexto global como en las dinámicas nacionales determinaron nuevos rumbos para la ciudad y la arquitectura urbana de Colombia, los cuales se concretaron en formas distintas de concebir lo urbano arquitectónico desde lo público. El resultado de ello es que se pusieron a prueba las bondades y certezas de lo construido entre los años 1980 y 2010-lapso cubierto por la...
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La información contenida en este catálogo es de gran utilidad para conocer lo que fue y significó la arquitectura moderna en el Perú, y debe servir para establecer las labores de protección de los edificios más significativos de las arquitecturas moderna, prehispánica, colonial y republicana, que deberían ser declarados monumentos históricos por ser piezas reveladoras de una época de nuestra historia.
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A wave of authorarinism is sweepling the planet in which the future for many peoples has become dark. It would be in our interest to know the traits of budding empire/authoritarianism, so we can be alert to its dangers and prevent its rise. Yet we are not taught these basic traits, nor to even name the reality, for the power of empire is such that it suppresses this awareness. Along with the ten traits of empire, this work wrestles with questions...
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Estudio sobre la cultura china y la contribución de los migrantes y sus descendientes a las naciones en las que se asentaron. Este es un volumen fundamental para los interesados en familiarizarse con el estado actual de los desplazamientos humanos y sus contribuciones económicas y culturales.
La segunda ola migratoria china al Perú comenzó en 1849. El 90% de los aproximadamente 90 000 culíes contratados para el Perú trabajaron en las haciendas...
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Created as an aid to architects, carpenters, and builders, this Radford Architectural Company of Chicago catalog was also welcomed by future home owners. Included are such houses as the Bixby, a two-bedroom bungalow, the Coventry, a charming Dutch Colonial with three bedrooms and other accommodations, and more. 189 black-and-white illustrations.
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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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"Peter Eisenman, Winner of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design" Peter Eisenman is founder and principal of Eisenman Architects and visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture. His many books include Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990–2004 and Tracing Eisenman. Elisa Iturbe is cofounder of the firm Outside Development and...
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Post-Arquitectura es la síntesis y revisión crítica de diez años de trabajo, donde los 'otros' espacios fueron el punto de partida para reflexiones y tesis. El texto propone entender la arquitectura como geografía de primera y segunda escala, es decir, como territorio base para la experiencia espacial; además plantea la reconceptualización de elementos arquitectnicos y su organización en redes y sistemas multidimensionales. Post-Arquitectura...
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The sixth book of "Latin America: Thoughts" collection, with foreword by Abilio Guerra and afterword by Paulo Bruna, brings André Marques' research on the work of architect João Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, in its aspects of technology and interaction with the environment. The author also establishes relationships between Lelé's design strategies with those of the French builder Jean Prouvé and the Austrian architect Richard Neutra.
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Fort d'une vaste connaissance universitaire et d'une expérience acquise sur le terrain dont peu d'experts de Justice " incendie peuvent se prévaloir, Jean-Luc Cartault complète cette maxime d'Aristote: " L'ignorant affirme, le savant doute, le sage réfléchit, Jean-Luc Cartault s'interroge." N'hésitant pas à revisiter certaines définitions usuelles en s'appuyant sur une démarche intellectuelle et méthodologique éprouvée notamment dans le...
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Considering the constant transformation and destruction of cultural heritage buildings in our cities and the effort to preserve what has survived, this book, proposes a methodology that helps the professional integrate contemporary architecture in cultural heritage contexts.
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The heyday of the national A-frame craze saw tens of thousands of these easy and affordable structures built as vacation homes, roadside restaurants, churches, and even pet stores. A-frame chronicles America's love affair with the A-frame, from postwar getaway to its recent revival among designers and DIYers. In a fascinating look at this architectural phenomenon, Chad Randl tells the story of the triangle house, from prehistoric Japan to its lifestyle-changing...
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Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ¨super-radical activist environmentalists.¨ Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline, as well as Allegorical Time Warp: The Media Fallout (1969) and an archival dossier on Ant Farm's Truckstop...
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The world is merging into one global system of goods, people and information. This book explores the social, cultural, and economic phenomena of globalization through housing. The Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH in Zurich examines the last 25 years of housing development. This book is a historical criticism with the built projects as protagonists. Housing typologies have been chosen as contemporary architectural prototypes. The selection...
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Jamais peut-être, depuis la fin du XVIe siècle en Italie, l'architecture ne s'était trouvée au seuil d'une pareille crise, soumise à une discussion d'une si grande virulence. D'après la variété actuelle des approches en architecture, on se rend compte qu'est désormais à bout de course, sinon totalement discréditée, ...
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An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. The book brings together a remarkable range of documents and original research which the project has produced during its continuous travels over the last four years starting with the exhibition...
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