Design For IdentityHow to Design Authentically for a Diverse World

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Bonet

Los textos en bastardilla que acompañan las obras han sido extraídos de entrevistas realizadas a Antonio Bonet por Hugo Schvartzman y Gustavo Natanson en Barcelona, el año 1978.El texto introductorio es también de Gustavo Natanson y el que acompaña el capítulo de Interiores y Muebles es de Ernesto Katzenstein.El resto de los textos, la selección de obras y material gráfico se han realiz…

Organizacionismos

La forma en Arquitectura está indefectiblemente ligada a la organización. Una determina a la otra y el análisis minucioso de su integracióndefina la singularidad de la obra arquitectónica. Organizacionismos presenta un modelo de estudio disciplinar enfocado en la construcciónde consistencia geométrica de casos de estudio con el doble fin de aprender de ellos y construir proyectos arquite…

Beyond GreenwaysThe Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction—walk to a restaurant in an area you've never explored, begin to savor your daily walk to work, or set out with a daypack to the city edges for fresh air and nature. Despite the known health benefits of routine walking, many people don't have pleasant, safe place…

The Freedom of the City

"Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for, what we stay for, what we hunger for", wrote Charles Downing Lay, prominent American landscape architect and planner of the early 1920s. These words are relevant today as density and congestion are once again under siege, especially in our most productive and thriving cities.   Published in 1926, The Freedom of the City by C…

Designing Pan-AmericaU.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere

Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the cou…

The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches …

The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. Until the eleventh century, churches tended to have a single external western nave doorway. This design changed in the next two centuries. New …

Case Studies on Failure Investigations in Structural and Geotechnical Enginee…

Failures of structures occur in all parts of the world as the result of design errors, construction defects, abuse or misuse, ageing and deterioration of the structure, lack of maintenance, as well as environmental effects such as wind, flood, snow, earthquake and, of course, human errors. They can result in catastrophic human costs as well as heavy financial losses to all involved, including l…

The Minimum Dwelling RevisitedCIAM's Practical Utopia (1928–31)

This book provides an intellectual history of the modernist "minimum dwelling", exploring how early modernism saw mass housing as a primary vehicle for achieving the utopian transformation of society. It reappraises the often-overlooked 2nd and 3rd CIAM conferences (1929-31), addressing their engagement with the "minimum dwelling" and revealing them both as milestones in the organisation's anna…

Hidden PatronsWomen and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain

Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2025 An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon elaborate architectural schemes. Hidden Patrons dismantles this myth - revealing …