A través de una narrativa clara y documentada, esta obra revela cómo los ostrogodos y visigodos adaptaron sus tradiciones al mundo romano y bizantino, dejando una huella indeleble en la historia de Europa y, especialmente, en España. Desde los rituales funerarios hasta la educación, pasando por el papel de la mujer y la evolución de la monarquía, este libro reconstruye el alma de un puebl…
L'institution du patrimoine, qu'elle concerne des collections, des monuments, ou encore des manifestations immatérielles, fait appel à des valeurs en principe partagées au sein d'une société : savantes, politiques, religieuses, idéologiques, esthétiques. Communément, son effet aujourd'hui est identifié à un développement culturel, associé à des activités qui vont de l'histoir…
The book presents the panorama of social, cultural, and religious changes in the states of the Piast, P?emyslid, and Arpad dynasties. Major change occurred in the tenth century and again at the turn of the eleventh century. Given the scarcity of written sources, the author employs an analysis of architectural forms which she applies to buildings founded by dukes, kings, and nobles at this perio…
Este libro propone repensar el modo en que concebimos y construimos nuestras ciudades, utilizando Lima como laboratorio urbano y social. En una ciudad que crece sin planificación y refleja profundas brechas sociales y ambientales, las autoras plantean que la sostenibilidad debe asumirse como un principio ético y colectivo, más allá de la eficiencia técnica o la certificación verde. Constr…
Contrary to the historical record, which views the architecture of the eastern Ottoman cities as unchanging remnants of a medieval and proto-Turkish golden age, this richly illustrated book highlights the wide-ranging transformations that Mardin, Diyarbakir, Urfa, Antep, Bitlis and Erzurum, saw at the hands of Armenian architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Case studies reflect …
Paisaje Cultural de Chiloé invita a recorrer un territorio donde geografía, arquitectura, historia y vida comunitaria se entrelazan de manera inseparable, desde los asentamientos costeros y la relación cotidiana con el mar, hasta las iglesias, palafitos, festividades y prácticas contemporáneas. El libro muestra la manera en que el archipiélago se ha configurado como un paisaje cultural ú…
In this perceptive and illustrative look at the expressive and practical use of stone throughout history, Richard Rhodes unlocks the underlying principles of this ancient materialand explains the closely guarded Sacred Rules of the Freemasons guild for the first time ever. The relationship between mankind and stone is elemental and deeply ingrained in us all.Stone, after all, has been the prim…
By the end of the twentieth century, US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, employed more people than were housed in most cities, and rented offices in more nations than comprised the UN. Within them, architects were designing not single buildings but urban systems, including the multinational infrastructures, legal codes, and financial mechanisms on whic…
Sir Percy Thomas was the most important twentieth-century architect in Wales, renowned for interwar civic buildings such as Swansea Guildhall and the Temple of Peace in Cardiff. His architectural practice, Sir Percy Thomas & Son, designed much of the post-1945 welfare state and industry in Wales and beyond. In the late twentieth century, the Percy Thomas Partnership specialised in complex healt…
L’art. 29 del D.L. n. 19/2024, convertito dalla Legge n. 56/2024, che ha novellato l’art. 27 del D.Lgs. n. 81/2008, introduce novità significative sulla patente a punti, un sistema di qualificazione destinato a imprese e lavoratori autonomi operanti nei cantieri temporanei o mobili, le cui caratteristiche principali sono…