Author: João Alvaro Rocha Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 250
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This heavily illustrated study follows Alvaro Rocha's architectural career. It depicts over 30 projects from 1990 to 2001 that range from domestic dwellings to buildings like the Portuguese Institute of Telecommunications.
Author: Pilar Mercader-Moyano Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319514423 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 451
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This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment. Furthermore, it offers professionals insights into alternative eco-efficient solutions using new materials to minimize environmental impacts and offers solutions that they can incorporate into their own designs and buildings. It also demonstrates best practices in the cooperation between various universities in Andalusia in Spain and Latin America and many public and private companies and organizations. This book serves as a valuable reference resource for professionals and researchers and provides an overview on the status of investigations to find solutions to improve sustainable development in terms of materials, systems, facilities, neighborhoods, buildings, and awareness of the society involved.
Author: Germán Téllez Publisher: Villegas Asociados ISBN: 9589393349 Category : Architecture, Domestic Languages : en Pages : 316
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Traveling the country in search of the most significant aspects of Colombia's colonial ranch houses, this book brings to life the convergence of decisive elements of the country's past and tradition. These ranch houses were the scene of struggles, epiphanies, and downfalls in the country's history—all evoked through the point of view of a historian specializing in architecture.
Author: Conxita Balcells Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 140
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The unresolved limits of the post-capitalist city give rise to interventions in the city and the contemporary landscape in which the planner has to rely on a knowledge of other fields. The inevitable multidisciplinary activity at these frontiers has been an object of study during recent decades. This book brings together these reflections and some of their achievements in projects whose common denominator is their condition of marginality, of contiguity with prior structures with which they try to establish connections and continuities. The four parts into which the book is divided make reference to projectural policies conditioned by work on the boundaries of the pre-existing and to the interpretation of their settings: stretches of water, infrastructures, cultural and artificial natures. Analysed here are border zones, edges, frontiers and fringes of the contemporary city with itself, with nature, and with the boundaries between the natural and the colonised landscape.
Author: Eduardo Maldonado Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134256221 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 704
Book Description
The 15th Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA) conference considered the issues of sustainability and environmental friendliness at the city scale. Some 150 papers address the many and varied questions faced by architects and planners in reducing the impact on the environment of cities and their buildings.
Author: Fernando Pérez Oyarzún Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1603443339 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 194
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Chilean architecture--along with that of Sao Paolo and Mexico City--sets a benchmark for the intersection of modernism with vernacular influences in Latin America. Culture, landscape, and the geology of this earthquake-prone region have all served as important filters for the practice of post-1950s design in Chile. This volume introduces the modern architecture of Chile to readers in the United States. Looking primarily at domestic architecture as a lens for studying the larger movement, Fernando Perez Oyarzun considers the relationship between theory and practice in Chile. As he shows in his chapter, during the early 1950s the School of Valparaiso offered the possibility of developing experimental projects accompanied by theoretical statements. There, visual artists considered poetry the starting point of modern architecture and contributed their radically modern views to the design process of the project. Next, Rodrigo Perez de Arce examines the material context of architecture in Chile: the availability of materials and technologies, the frequency of violent earthquakes and related seismic activity, and the nation's craft-based, labor-intensive building practices. He applies these considerations to a series of case studies to demonstrate how they interact with cultural, historical, economic, and even political influences. In the book's final chapter, Horacio Torrent reviews the interplay between the architectonic culture and modern shapes that came into sharp focus in the 1950s in Chile. In another series of case studies, he highlights the formation of a system of concepts, thought processes, instruments, and values that have given Chilean architecture a certain singularity during the last fifty years.
Author: Henry Sanoff Publisher: Univ. Politèc. de Catalunya ISBN: 848301842X Category : Architecture Languages : es Pages : 112
Book Description
Este libro trata de establecer conexiones que puedan guiarnos hacia un nuevo profesionalismo, teniendo en cuenta que las décadas anteriores vieron nacer nuevos tipos de especialistas, principalmente en las áreas de programación, evaluación y participación. Las implicaciones de tal integración son de largo alcance y podrán tener, en el futuro, efectos muy significativos en el entorno físico, la profesión del arquitecto y la formación de los futuros arquitectos. This book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past decades have given rise mainly to new kinds of specialists in the areas of programming, evaluation, and participation. The implications for such integration are far reaching, with profound future effects on the physical environment, the architectural profession, and the education of architects.
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