La apasionante crónica de los últimos años de Alejandro Magno: una odisea de ambición desmedida, victorias deslumbrantes y derrotas que sellaron su legado. En el 330 a. C., tras derrotar a Darío III y tomar Persépolis, Alejandro parecía haber alcanzado la cima de su reinado. Pero su ambición era mayor que cualquier mapa conocido. Decidió continuar hacia el este, persiguiendo un horizo…
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MMOT. Mejores modelos de ocupación del territorio nos invita a repensar el diseño como una forma de habitar el mundo. A través de un recorrido histórico que abarca desde las estrategias bélicas hasta las reflexiones contemporáneas sobre el cuerpo y la percepción, este libro propone una nueva mirada a esta disciplina. El arquitecto Sergio Guzmán inicia su análisis explorando cómo el di…
Questo volume ritrae un volto appassionante e quasi sconosciuto dell'Italia: quel paio di generazioni, tra Ottocento e Novecento, affollate di mazziniani, garibaldini, democratici mossi da uno spirito universalistico e da un senso di apostolato per la libertà. Spesso li si è confusi con gli esponenti del nazionalismo o delle proiezioni annessioniste sulle terre ritenute italiane, ma erano qua…
Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes, is a manual for exploring and interpreting vernacular architecture, the common buildings of particular regions and time periods. Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley provide a comprehensive introduction to the field. Proposing a methodology, Invitation to Vernacular Architecture provides a …
In Masonic Temples, William D. Moore introduces readers to the structures American Freemasons erected over the sixty-year period from 1870 to 1930, when these temples became a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape. As representations of King Solomon’s temple in ancient Jerusalem erected in almost every American town and city, Masonic temples provided specially designed spaces for t…
Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, found?ers of the design practice urbz, explore how such neighbourhoods and their inhabitants have been unfairly dismissed when they should in fact be under-stood as partners in the story of cities and urban development.
It rises suddenly out of the Sonoran Desert landscape, towering over the tallest tree or cactus, a commanding building with a sensuous dome, elliptical vaults, and sturdy bell towers. There is nothing else like it around, nor does it seem there should be. This incongruity of setting is what strikes first-time visitors to Mission San Xavier del Bac. This great church is of another place and anot…
È pura utopia al giorno d'oggi pensare a un'architettura libera dal mercato? Se la risposta affermativa a tale domanda risulta essere perfettamente scontata, ciò comporta quale sua necessaria conseguenza la rinuncia dell'architettura a ogni ambizione utopica? Una resa cioè a quell'«estetica del consenso» dietro cui, con assillante inquietudine, già Vittorio Gregotti intravedeva lo «spett…
One could read the collection of essays herein as a political voice to architecture and the architecture profession, constantly gnawing away at the disciplinary, only to find favor in the imaginative, intellectually interesting and the creative. Beyond embodying a collection of thought on architecture and its discipline, the present collection of essays also serves as a not-so-veiled political …