Esta obra marca la necesidad de dar respuestas a esos interrogantes no resueltos en la bibliografía existente sobre construcciones de obras de arquitectura.
¿Por qué Cíclico, Preventivo y Constante? Porque define claramente la secuencia natural en que debe ser abordado el mantenimiento edilicio: en forma regular, actuando antes de que se produzcan los hechos irreparables y a lo largo de toda la vida del edificio. Los inconvenientes que suscitan la falta de mantenimiento en los edificios acarrean problemas de mal funcionamiento, riesgos a la segu…
Guest-edited by Samantha Hardingham This issue of AD celebrates the extraordinary life and work of British architect Will Alsop (1947–2018) – a career and portfolio that is both literally and metaphorically steeped in colour. Characterised as a maverickarchitect, Alsop was in truth an individualist who was all for the collective, and a non-conformist. His design aim was to replace 'a litt…
The Covid-19 lockdowns caused people worldwide to be confined to their homes for longer and on a greater scale than ever before. This forced many unprecedented changes to the way we treat domestic space – as relationships shifted between the public and the private worlds, and homes were rapidly adapted to accommodate the additional roles of schools, offices, gyms, restaurants, making-spaces a…
The new form of timber construction is hybrid! Timber construction is booming, not only because it is environmentally friendly: building in timber is gaining increasing importance particularly in an urban and multistorey setting. Material-optimized hybrid construction makes it possible to leave stereotyped thinking behind, while opening up completely new opportunities for timber architecture. T…
Onze architectes connus et reconnus ont accepté, visiblement avec plaisir, de jouer le jeu de la confidence. Chacun y exprime ce qu'il ressent de sa vie, de son travail, de son parcours. Nous découvrons ainsi que le métier d'architecte est pluriel: des spécialisations qui s'élaborent et se revendiquent (le logement social, les écoles, les équipements sportifs, etc.), au sein d'une agence…
Welchen Bedingungen unterliegen menschliche Lebenswirklichkeiten in gesellschaftlich hervorgebrachten Räumen? Dieser Frage nähert sich Dietrich Erben vom Begriff der Humanität aus und ist damit den sozialen Handlungen, der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung und den imaginierten Bedeutungszuschreibungen in der gebauten Umwelt auf der Spur. Für ein neues Verständnis der gebauten Umwelt integriert er Met…
Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly idiosyncratic city scenes: People dancing along the motorway, strolling through the stone archipelago, spl…
How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Te…
This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. Religious architecture gave faithful expression to the complexity of the Roman East and t…