Ce livre s'adresse à un lectorat passionné par l'environnement bâti qui désire en connaître davantage sur l'organisation physique et spatiale de nos villages, de nos villes et de nos agglomérations en lien étroit avec le territoire qui les a vus naître. Il intéressera particulièrement les personnes qui interviennent, exercent une pratique professionnelle ou étudient dans les domaines…
Thanks to high-performance composite structures made of wood and steel or concrete, wooden buildings are now being erected far beyond the high-rise boundaries. An end to the increase in altitude is hardly in sight. Wooden constructions are also on the uptrend in residential and office construction, sports halls, industrial buildings and bridges. They are the epitome of sustainable building and,…
El libro sistematizado en doce capítulos destinado a estudiantes, instaladores, inspectores y técnicos, orientado en disciplinar el saber específico en: "el gas y sus características; seguridad y responsabilidades; materiales; instalaciones de gas natural (GN) y gas licuado (GLP); regulación; medición; artefactos, quemadores y dispositivos sensores; conductos – chimeneas y su remate; ab…
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in …
Studies of Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology - the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies of squares focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporal changes of these…
Este trabajo recoge –recorte mediante- los principales resultados de la Tesis Doctoral "Adaptabilidad y vivienda de producción estatal: estrategias y recursos proyectuales. SubPrograma de Urbanización de Villas y Asentamientos Precarios. 2005-2009", defendida el 7 de diciembre de 2016. En aquel entonces, la utopía de discutir el proyecto de la Vivienda Social encontraba una estructura conc…
The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city b…
Studies of Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology - the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies of squares focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporal changes of these…
"A lively journey around the worlds brutalist buildings" Frieze.com "A dazzlingly shot whistle-stop of the much-maligned styles greatest hits ... the book showcases confidence, clarity and the historical importance of the movement." Monocle No modern architectural movement has aroused so much awe and so much ire as Brutalism. This is architecture at its most assertive: com…
This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural profession emerged in early American history. Mary Woods dispels the prevailing notion that the profession developed under the leadership of men formally schooled in architecture as an art during the late nineteenth century. Instead, she cites several instances in the early 1800s of craftsmen-builders who shifted their identity to that o…