Durante las últimas décadas han tenido lugar numerosas iniciativas artísticas en Bogotá, que han logrado cierta visibilidad y significación, gracias a su capacidad de incidir en la producción de espacios públicos, por su papel en la visibilización de sectores marginados de la ciudad, por la participación de sus agentes en las pugnas por la garantía de los derechos culturales de ampl…
Bring Monet's paintings and gardens to life using this gorgeously illustrated book that will teach you how to create a Monet lifestyle from your living room to your kitchen to your garden—from the documentarian and author of Monet's Palate Cookbook, with the support of the American steward and all the head gardeners at Giverny. Aileen Bordman has long been influenced by the work of Claude Mo…
Esiste un legame strettissimo tra edificazione e surriscaldamento. Questo dovrebbe indurre gli architetti a rivedere il modo in cui progettare. Eppure ciò non avviene se non in termini di mera risposta tecnologica e quantitativa. Le ragioni del mancato intervento sono inscritte in un ampio processo che origina da Cartesio e che è stato descritto da Husserl e dagli esistenzialisti. I contribut…
Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship. I…
El urbanismo actual, inmerso en un proceso de transformación en la manera de concebir y construir la ciudad y nuestro entorno urbano, establece como prioritarios los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, la inclusión de equipos multidisciplinanes y la participación ciudadana, a través de los cuales lograr una adecuada sostenibilidad ambiental, económica y social. Esta edición presenta cómo…
Il numero 20 della rivista si apre con l'editoriale del direttore, il professor Giuseppe Strappa, che presenta il modo con il quale il fascicolo affronta il problema del territorio e delle città. A seguire 40 contributi, divisi nelle sezioni "Riflessioni", "Saggi e Progetti", "Punti di vista" e "Recensioni e Notizie".
Old California Houses: Portraits and Stories by Marion Randall Parsons is both an art book and a work of historical imagination. Originating in a painter’s sketching tour, the volume preserves vignettes of California’s architectural and cultural past—old adobes, mission-era ranch houses, miners’ boarding places, schools, churches, and grand mansions—through portrai…
A lo largo de la historia, las obras arquitectónicas han ido dando respuesta a condiciones como el lugar, el clima, el uso, la construcción o la apariencia. A pesar de la gran diversidad de estas, una mirada analítica permite abstraer criterios y principios comunes que definen unos sistemas universales: la arquitectura del patio, la arquitectura compuesta por partes y la arquitectura de la f…
The book analyses architectural and landscape characteristics of the traditional Chinese courtyard as one of the most important parts of traditional Chinese architectural and landscape forms and the core component of Chinese dwellings.The question of how to transform the traditional courtyard, which is a product of traditional lifestyle, into a space that fits modern life while preserving its d…
Middle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism is an essential exploration of the enduring relationship between urban centers and their surrounding societies throughout the history of the Middle East. This collection emerges from a landmark symposium held at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, which convened leading scholars across …