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Designers' Guide to EN 1992-1-1:2023: Eurocode 2Strengthening of Existing Con…
Designers' Guide to EN 1992-1-1:2023: Eurocode 2: Strengthening of Existing Concrete Structures with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) provides clear guidance on the new design procedures to help practicing engineers to grasp the theoretical basis in accordance with the design rules for EN 1992-1-1. This book focuses on the design procedures, detailing rules and durability considerations p…
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Hans Heyerdahl HallenNordic Influences on Modern Architecture in South Africa
Tracing the life of architect Hans Heyerdahl Hallen (1930–2022), this book reveals the transnational influences that shaped his practice in South Africa, and the migratory circles of ideas that defined a new form of subtropical architecture. Beginning with Hallen's Nordic and South African roots, chapters then explore his practice and studies at the London County Council and Architectural As…
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Ecological by DesignA History from Scandinavia
Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession. The emergence of …
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Reconstructing Past Monastic Life: Volume 2: Diet, Landscape and Monastic Spa…
Explores the organization of diet, food practices, water management, and spatial use within historical monastic complexes and landscapes. Monasticism is a form of religious life in which participants renounce worldly activities to dedicate themselves primarily to spiritual matters, living in small communities subject to a set of rules and isolated from the secular world. Christian monasticism, …
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Prácticas documentalesProyecto y contingencia
¿Es posible entender algunas prácticas arquitectónicas como cercanas al arte documental? Este texto ensaya esta posibilidad a partir del corpus teórico que recoge el documental en el cine. Realidad, honestidad y ficción son términos muy discutidos y a la vez muy pertinentes en nuestra disciplina. Lo que une a cine y arquitectura, en el marco de este texto, es que uno y otra han de elabora…
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UN BUEN ARQUITECTO
En el incondicional afán por hacer de la arquitectura un campo conocido por todos, aparece un nuevo texto de José Antonio López Salas, que trata nuevamente, tras Arquitectura para No Arquitectos, de resultar pedagógico e instructivo, acercando términos arquitectónicos a cualquiera que vaya a verse inmerso en un proyecto. Se tratará de aportar luz a un campo en ocasiones farragoso, comple…
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PROYECTO, TEORÍA E HISTORIAS EN LAS MODERNIDADES INTERNACIONALES DEL S XX
El trabajo aborda la problemática de la arquitectura y del proyecto desde la Teoría, la Historia y el Conocimiento Proyectual en la Modernidad del siglo XX en el escenario internacional. Tal abordaje se efectúa desde una interpretación crítica y de revisión de una serie de postulados establecidos desde una visión canónica de la historia de la Modernidad. El mismo repasa un conjunto de c…
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Jardines acuáticos
Desde los jardines colgantes de Babilonia a los nenúfares de Monet, los jardines acuáticos han sido, en todas las épocas y en todas las culturas, un elemento indispensable en la decoración de los jardines. No importa cuáles sean las dimensiones de su jardín, la cantidad de sol que reciba o a cuánto ascienda su presupuesto: usted puede disfrutar de un jardín acuático en el que flotarán…
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Alvar AaltoA Critical Study
Alvar Aalto was remarkably inventive in architecture and industrial design. Moreover, his command of technology was integrated with a humanistic style of building, and like Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright he sought an organic synthesis of his structures with their surroundings. Aalto's success in approaching these ideals may account for the extraordinary spread of his influence on an internatio…
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The Maya MythsA Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors
Highly complex and divided into politically fragmented noble houses, the Maya civilization produced a diverse and complicated mythology that varies between groups and retellings. For example, there are three different myths about the origins of the sun and moon, in one creation myth animals and objects rise up to torment humanity; whilst in another, pots shatter and speak, unleashing demons upo…
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