With rich photography and insightful commentary, this Thai architecture and interior design book showcases some of the finest modern masterpieces in Southeast Asia. A tremendous body of sophisticated and sensitively designed architectural work has been produced in Thailand in th…
Recent years have seen a rapidly growing interest among contemporary architects in the use of curtain walls to create innovative, attention-grabbing building facades. With new concerns about the environment and affordable envelopes, the curtain wall represents a microcosm of iss…
En este libro, basado en sus conferencias de Reith (1995), el arquitecto Richard Rogers presenta un nuevo y radical programa de acción para el futuro de nuestras ciudades. Demuestra la influencia que ejercen la arquitectura y el planeamiento urbano sobre nuestras vidas cotidiana…
Instability is the eighth in an annual series of publications that feature the best young architects as selected by the Architectural League of New York in their annual Young Architects competition. This year candidates confronted the question of defining their architectural pra…
"London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other Eurpean cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture inown simply as '…
Atlas de edificios: Architecture : overview
Hace dos mil años, el arquitecto romano Vitruvio escribió el primer tratado sobre arquitectura que ofrecía principios y soluciones para los proyectos, constituyendo una suerte de manual de consulta que todavía es un referente en la formación de cualquier arquitecto europeo. Al i…
A coletânea traz 51 ensaios de teoria da arquitetura contemporânea de grandes nomes como Eisenman, Colquhoun, Koolhaas e Frampton. A antologia é uma excelente introdução às questões centrais do debate teórico pós-moderno a partir dos anos 1960 - época em que as objeções à ideolo…