Materialidad poéticaArquitectura suiza contemporánea

La arquitectura, para su culminación, precisa del concurso de la experiencia espacial. Desde esta base metodológica la autora se sirve del poder cognoscitivo de la mirada para ir desvelando paulatinamente, desde la dimensión trascendente de los materiales, las claves de la arquitectura contemporánea del entorno alpino de los Grisones que creíamos conocida. A lo largo del texto se van tejie…

Temas de estructuras especiales (3° edicion)Introducción a Nueva Reglamento…

Consecuente con los criterios pedagógicos aplicados en las Cátedras de "Estructuras" que presido para la enseñanza de las disciplinas resistentes a los alumnos de arquitectura, orientados a su contextualización, se intenta en este libro una articulación permanente de todos los Ítems con los fundamentos básicos que rigen los principiosde la Estática y Resistencia de materiales. Con estas…

Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era

Buildings in Society: International Studies in the Historic Era presents a series of papers reflecting the latest approaches to the study of buildings from the historic period. This volume does not examine buildings as architecture, but adopts an archaeological perspective to consider them as artefacts, reflecting the needs of those who commissioned them. Studies have often failed to consider t…

Ante Bellum Houses of the BluegrassThe Development of Residential Architectur…

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Clean Living Under Difficult CircumstancesFinding a Home in the Ruins of Mode…

From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Clean Living in Difficult Circumstances argues for the city as a socialist project. Combining memoir, history, portraits of particular places and things, Hatherley argues for those who have tried to cre…

Frankfurter Wegsehenswürdigkeiten

In ihrem jährlichen Städteranking hat die New York Times in die Liste "Places to go 2014" von 52 Städten weitweit Frankfurt am Main als einzige deutscheStadt aufgenommen. Sie landete auf Platz 12. Die offizielle Facebookseite verzeichnet über 190.000 Fans, die Fotos hochladen oder ihre Meinung zu Frankfurt abgeben können.Mit Superlativen wird dabei nicht gespart: "Die schönste Stadt der W…

The Synagogues of KentuckyArchitecture and History

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Restorative Citiesurban design for mental health and wellbeing

Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home just how much urban des…

New York's Historic ArmoriesAn Illustrated History

Winner of the 2007 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award presented by the Preservation League of New York State Winner of the 2007 Building Typology Award presented by the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America New York's Army National Guard armories are among the most imposing monuments to the role of the citizen soldier in American military history. In New York's Histori…

Capitol Story

A lavishly illustrated history of New York's Capitol and its recent renovation. The New York State Capitol sits majestically at the head of Albany's State Street, a masterpiece of civic architecture and decorative design. Built between 1867 and 1899, it was the work of four architects-Thomas Fuller, Leopold Eidlitz, Henry Hobson Richardson, and Isaac Perry-who labored under geologically diffi…