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Botanical ArchitecturePlants, Buildings and Us
An original call to reorient architecture around our relationship to plants. When we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. Whereas a tree creates its own structure, humans generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences. In Botanical Architecture, Paul Dobraszczy…
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Margin and TextAmplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture
A broad range of diverse voices in architecture discuss issues of equity, access, and social justice embedded in and related to the built environment. Margin and Text is a collection of essays, interviews, and personal stories, as well as historical and current writings and lectures, contributed by BIPOC and female practitioners and educators in architecture. Each piece offers reflec…
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- 9781797227672
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World of Art
Le Corbusier is probably the most famous architect of the 20th century. The richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had a gigantic impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes his perennial drive towards new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unit…
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Building Little SaigonRefugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs
An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or "Little Saigons," in America's built environment. In the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, 125,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated or who made their own way out of the country resettled in the United States. Finding themselves in unfamiliar places yet still connected in exile, these refugees began building…
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Introducción al Diseño Arquitectónicolos primeros pasos del arquitecto
El texto permite caminar por el proceso del diseño arquitectónico de una manera sencilla, posible y con ejemplos, lo cual facilita su comprensión. No solo es un texto que bien puede ser usado de referencia para el alumno, también para el catedrático se vuelve una guía de consulta o recordatorio para enseñar el proceso de diseño arquitectónico, que explica paso a paso los procedimientos…
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- 9786527038016
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Espacio y movilidadLa arquitectura de los desplazamientos
Los desplazamientos condicionan inevitablemente la vida cotidiana de las personas por lo que supone una gran responsabilidad para quienes diseñan el territorio o gestionan su funcionamiento. No solo porque en España cada persona dedica dos horas al día de media a desplazarse, sino porque la movilidad garantiza derechos y favorece las oportunidades de la ciudadanía. De ahí que la infraestru…
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The Monument’s EndPublic Art and the Modern Republic
How today’s questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandt’s time Monuments occupy a controversial place in nations founded on principles of freedom and self-governance. It is no accident that when we think of monuments, we think of statues modeled on legacies of conquest, domination, and violence. The Monument’s End reveals how …
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HormigónArma de contrucción masiva del capitalismo
El hormigón encarna la lógica capitalista. Es el lado concreto de la abstracción mercantil. Como ella, anula todas las diferencias y es más o menos siempre lo mismo. Producido de forma industrial y en cantidades astronómicas, con consecuencias ecológicas y sanitarias desastrosas, ha extendido su dominio por el mundo entero, asesinando las arquitecturas tradicionales y homogeneizando todos…
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Reforming SuburbiaThe Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands
The "new community" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This richly documented book examines the results of those experiments in three of the most successful new communities: Irvine Ranch…
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Interior Design Visual Presentation
INTERIOR DESIGN VISUAL PRESENTATION Comprehensive guide covering all aspects of visual design, including planning, layout, and presentation. Interior Design Visual Presentation comprehensively addresses the visual design and presentation skills of the interior designer, featuring thorough, process-oriented coverage on the planning, layout, and the design of interior building spaces and guid…
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