MORE WATER LESS LAND NEW ARCHITECTURESEA LEVEL RISE AND THE FUTURE OF COASTAL…

Climate change, and the inevitability of sea level rise, will require much more of us than simply pulling back from the coastline. The thesis of Weston Wright's More Water Less Land New Architecture is that we need to start thinking in an entirely different way about the relationship of cities to waterfront sites and of the relationship of buildings to water, which means rethinking many of arch…

Watch This SpaceExploring Cinematic Intersections Between the Body, Architect…

This book, and its individual essays, examine key emerging and evolving practices, theories and methodologies that operate in the blurred boundary between spatial design disciplines, such as architecture, interior and urban design, and film and moving image studies more broadly. The collection is an exploration of the evolving interdisciplinary rhetoric connecting spatial design discipl…

Hormigón ArmadoManual de Diseño Estructural

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9781643608976

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1 online resource (435 pages)

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Ciudades de ríoAgonía o renaturalización. Valle del Chumbao

"La mayoría de las ciudades andinas del Perú comparten un deplorable rasgo común: los ríos que las recorren —antes fuentes de agua limpia y factor primordial de la identidad paisajística del lugar— se han convertido en desagües abiertos y el destino de todos los desperdicios de la ciudad.El agua y los ríos están en pleno proceso de inanición. Situación que se agrava aún más por …

The Physical and the Digital CityInvisible Forces, Data, and Manifestations

The Physical and the Digital City is a unique collection of projects where researchers and designers show how the theories of technology underpinning the digital urban environment are applied in practical and spatial terms. The authors are experts in their respective fields, who pursue cutting edge solutions for city-making and consider the theoretical premise critically. It is designed to be…

Neuroarquitetura, Psicologia e Filosofia: Interfaces da Experiência

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9786525058672

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1 online resource (445 pages)

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ArchitekturEine Einführung

The model of a Greek temple or the high-rise building of the Daimler-Benz group in Berlin – Leonhard Helten provides a basic understanding of tectonic problems. How do construction forms and types come about? What are the functions of triforium, pillar, ribbed vault or arch crown? The volume is aimed at anyone interested in architecture and gives a compact introduction to the field. At the sa…

Home, Heat, Money, GodTexas and Modern Architecture

Thematically focused analysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects. In the mid-twentieth century, dramatic social and political change coincided with the ascendance and evolution of architectural modernism in Texas. Between the 1930s and 1980s, a state known for cowboys and cotton fields rapidly urbanized and…

El proceso militar

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9786316608505

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1 online resource (32 pages)

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Mönckeberg y aracenaMaestros de la arquitectura en los inicios del modernism…

"La elaboración de este libro ha sido motivada, entre otros factores, por los siguientes: inicialmente, por la propia experiencia personal en la SCEE (Sociedad Constructora de Establecimientos Educacionales) durante doce años de trabajo, tiempo en que alcancé a conocer a José Aracena, quien murió en 1971; luego, por un deseo de abordar la vida de Gustavo Mönckeberg, quien fuera el padre d…