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Brunelleschi and the Moment of the Renaissance
Filippo Brunelleschi is at once the most famous and most misunderstood architect of the Renaissance. The founding architect of the movement that led the way to modernity, his originality was not expressed in words or theory but rather in the materials he used, the scenography of space he engineered, the ingenuity of his designs, the exquisite workmanship of his detailing and the strikingly crea…
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Going for ZeroDecarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban Fu…
Climate change is no longer an abstract threat. Day after day, an already disrupted climate is impacting the lives of millions, and the time available to curtail climate change is alarmingly limited. Going for zero greenhouse gas emissions requires retooling everything about industry, agriculture, transportation, and every city and town that people inhabit. The work of architects, engineers, la…
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Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture
Written in what architect Richard Rogers regarded as a moment of crisis in modern architecture, this essay considers how the way we build and live might change for the better. Poor design, monotony and inhuman scale are, Roger argues, not the results of a lack of talent nor the failures of the Modern Movement, but of a surrender to exploitative economic systems and inconsiderate business intere…
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Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson
Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to establish Rome as an ancestor to America. In a time of significant political and cultural change, he aligned himself with a Greco-Romano legacy that represented kn…
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Transgresiones sexuales en el arte medieval
¿Cuál es el conjunto de objetos del que puede o no hablarse respecto de la sexualidad? ¿Es este un campo de enunciaciones posible o no? Michel Foucault plantea estos interrogantes y sostiene que la sexualidad se ha convertido en "el sismógrafo de nuestra subjetividad". Fue en el mundo cristiano del pecado donde la sexualidad conoció "una felicidad de expresión". Carne es el nombre que el …
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Arquitectura Latinoamericana en la FAU
La publicación presenta una serie de entrevistas realizadas a los protagonistas del Ciclo de Conferencia sobre Arquitectura Latinoamericana que se realizó en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la UNLP desde mayo a octubre del 2019. Se trata de Javier Corvalán (Paraguay); Carlos Medellín (Colombia); Sebastián Irarrazabal y Alejandro Aravena (Chile); Jean Pierre Crousse y Sandra Barc…
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La collina di cristalloSerre e forme terrestri di Sanremo nel divenire città
Questo libro esplora le relazioni sintattiche tra il prodotto della civiltà umana e i fatti geografici, indagando la forma attraverso le serre di Sanremo, la "Città dei Fiori". Il territorio è considerato una macchina scientifica propositiva per il progetto d'architettura e, in questa prospettiva, le serre sono risignificate in machines du soleil, dispositivi analitici che interpretano il pr…
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Building Codes IllustratedA Guide to Understanding the 2024 International Bui…
STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST UPDATES TO THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE WITH THE LEADING VISUAL REFERENCE In the newly revised Eighth Edition of Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2024 International Building Code ®, architectural drawing expert Francis D.K. Ching and well-known architect Steven R. Winkel deliver a beautifully illustrated and intuitively written handbook …
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MillworkThe Design and Manufacturing of Historic Millwork from 1740 - 1950
Historic millwork expert Brent Hull provides a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive reference of millwork elements found in historic homes from the 18th to 20th centuries. Millwork: The Design and Manufacturing of Historic Millwork from 1740–1950 is organized by type of millwork for ease of reference and includes rare illustrations, hard-to-find drawings, and diagrams from the 19th century, many of w…
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Industrializing Iron Construction at the École Centrale Paris, 1829–1865
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new material—iron. Industrializing Iron Construction at the École Centrale Paris, 1829–1865 explains a novel response to that need, a successful new school to educate civil and struc…
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