La Sagrada Familia es el monumento más visitado de Barcelona, más de tres millones de personas la visitan cada año. Son los mecenas anónimos que con el dinero de las entradas hacen posible el trabajo de 450 profesionales: arquitectos, aparejadores, carpinteros, picapedreros, modelistas, escultores, herreros y otros especialistas que acuden cada día al templo. Tras los andamios de la Sagrad…
A wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China's urban future. Superblocks are the basic unit of China's urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined 'Megablocks' then become lab…
Design Practice Research at RMIT University is a longstanding program of research into what venturous designers actually do when they design. It is probably the most enduring and sustained body of research of its kind: empirical, evidence-based and surfacing evidence about design practice. This first Pink Book documents some of its past achievements.It is probably the most enduring and sustaine…
Using Kuwait as a case study and Pan Arab Modernism as a lens, this book comes to fill two voids in the literature on Middle Eastern architecture: one is in practice and the other is in history. The current practice of architecture in Kuwait, the Gulf and the larger Middle East, is typically a-contextual and lacking any understanding of the local context. The architectural history, on the other…
Il presente volume è frutto dell'esperienza degli autori in ambito di ricerca, didattica ed anche professionale su una materia di primario interesse quale quella della digitalizzazione dell'intera filiera delle costruzioni, intesa come strategia imprescindibile per il miglioramento delle performance del comparto. Gli autori con rigore scientifico analizzano le potenzialità dell'evoluzione dig…
Il volume Tecnologie di progetto per il terminal aeroportuale è il primo manuale di progettazione in italiano che applica risultati di ricerca in questo campo. Il testo raccoglie metodi specialistici validati per raggiungere gli obiettivi dei progetti aeroportuali. L'elemento innovativo dell'opera è costituito dal fatto che presenta con chiarezza gli argomenti per facilitare la comprensione d…
"Este estudio atento del paisaje cultural del estrecho de Magallanes explora los conceptos de continuidad, cambio y percepción a escala territorial para un paisaje terrestre y marino único. Es una adición importante a la literatura en el campo y abre nuevos debates nacionales e internacionales en torno a la categoría de paisaje cultural.El paisaje cultural de Magallanes es representado en e…
El Monasterio Benedictino de la Santísima Trinidad de Las Condes (Monumento Histórico), cuya iglesia es obra de Gabriel Guarda O.S.B. (+) y Martín Correa O.S.B., integra con propiedad el patrimonio histórico del país, constituyéndose por su notable valor en un pilar de nuestra identidad cultural y en una de las obras de arquitectura contemporánea de mayor relevancia nacional y continental.
Compiles ON-A work philosophy: a constant search for innovative ad hoc solutions for each project, using the most updated technologies and design research. This book exposes and collects the innovations developed through 15 years of work at ON-A, through lengthy conversations between its founders and directors (Eduardo Gutiérrez and Jordi Fernández) and the editor. This is not a usual monogra…
Trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since ancient times. However, at the end of the 19th century those links became explicit in the design process, as the house emerged as one of the fundamental architectural programs, and as the result of …