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Last LandscapesThe Architecture of the Cemetery in the West
Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed "cities of the dead", such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague and Père Lachaise in Paris. Other landscapes that feature in this book include the …
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Correspondencias
Este no solo es un libro para urbanistas, sino para todas las disciplinas que hoy se abocan a estudiar la sociedad, la comunidad, el colectivo social, o como le queramos llamar; los abordajes del autor enriquecen nuestras visiones y además –y mucho más importante– no cumplen con las expectativas, como solicitarían los cultores del mercado editorial, sino que las superan, introduciéndono…
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Cambiando el arte de vender
La modernidad, que supo reocnocer en la ciudad el lugar idóneo para el intercambio y la circulación de los productos, encontrará en la tienda el espacio idóneo donde crear el nuevo escenario para el consumo que el mercado demandaba. Un mercado que valorará la aptitud disuasoria de lo moderno y su capacidad para despertar en transeúnte la curiosidad y el deseo hacia un producto por definic…
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Código de rasgos arquitectónicos de la ciudad de La PlataPeríodo fines sig…
En este texto, se deconstruye, a través del método de análisis descriptivo, una organización acabada en rasgos y atributos que, posteriormente en una hoja analítica, recomponen el sistema total. En este proceso se encuentran presentes las mentes de quienes hicieron de la idea una realización y la de quienes, desde ella, explican una organización consciente y/o inconsciente, a pesar de co…
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- 9781643603070
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Casas con estructuras de acero
El presente libro está dirigido particularmente a los estudiantes y profesionales relacionados con el mundo de la construcción, interesados en profundizar algunos aspectos del sistema de construcción con perfiles de acero galvanizado liviano Steel Framing en lo relacionado con la documentación de obra. Se brindan una serie de pautas generales para efectuar un legajo de obra cuya temática e…
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- 9789875845091
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Dividing ParisUrban Renewal and Social Inequality, 1852–1870
A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon III In the mid-nineteenth century, Napoleon III and his prefect, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, adapted Paris to the requirements of industrial capitalism, endowing the old city with elegant boulevards, an enhanced water supply, modern sewers, and public greenery. Esther da Costa Meyer p…
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A Ficto-Historical Theory of the London Underground
This book offers a vision of the London Underground written in the form of a ficto-historical narrative, which combines history and fiction in the creation of a set of theoretical propositions for London's subterranean transportation network. Its amateur-scholar protagonist takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the world of research, with sources personified and their works appropriat…
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- 9783887789152
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The Society of Interiors
The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial practices in urban conte…
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How to make yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool
Set amidst the experimental ecology of practices that supports feminist thinking and doing in architecture, this small book outlines an instruc- tion guide that presents six provocative steps toward the invention of productive concept-tools. It invites readers to explore creative and messy methodologies that combine an aesthetics with a practical ethics. Frichot encourages us to think and do ar…
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Architectural Aesthetic SpeculationsOn Kahn and Deleuze
Architectural Aesthetic Speculations expands our understanding of the role of formal aesthetic criteria in twentieth-century artistic practices and reveals potentially transformative aspects in the art of architectural composition. The book stages an encounter of philosopher Gilles Deleuze's (1925–1995) constructivist sensibility and architect Louis Kahn's (1901–1974) mode of architectural …
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