Quando e perché decidiamo di acquistare un'abitazione? Il prezzo è davvero così importante oppure sono altri i fattori che accelerano o inibiscono la nostra scelta? Esiste la casa dei sogni o sono gli stimoli del marketing, le riviste di moda, le suggestioni suscitate dai progetti delle archistar ad imporci nuovi modelli dell'abitare? Corroborato da un'approfondita ricerca sul campo, il libr…
This book includes keynote lectures by specialists, oral papers and posters on diferent aspects of color related to food, as well as a commercial market and an artistic exhibition. The theme of the meeting is approached from different perspectives, including not only tecnology and colorimetry from diferent perspectives, including not only food technology and colorimetry, color chemestry and phy…
AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architec…
Con una amplia gama de problemas y casos reales sobre matemática financiera, este libro llena un gran espacio vacío, que se contrapone, en buena medida, con la bibliografía de esta disciplina, cuyos aspectos teóricos son más relevantes. Por esta razón se confeccionó una breve introducción sobre el significado del dinero y un glosario de fórmulas que se aplican a lo largo de este trabaj…
Crown Hall Dean's Dialogues: 2012-2017 collects incisive, intimate thoughts from leading contemporary architects in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture. This title collects the voices of 18 esteemed architects, designers, educators and theorists in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture. Voi…
Discover a practical guide to residential space planning, in this room-by-room guide with up-to-date info on accessibility, ergonomics, and building systems In the newly revised Fourth Edition of Residential Interior Design: A Guide to Planning Spaces, an accomplished team of design professionals delivers the gold standard in practical, human-centered residential interior design. Authors Maur…
The newly built Mas d'Enric penitentiary sparks a series of reflections on architecture's role in the problematic subject of prison design. The prison is an uncomfortable institution and its architecture is often subjugated to technocratic criteria. This servility forces the prison out of the socio-cultural realm where it belongs, thus erasing it from public discourse. "Mas d'Enric" is a new pe…
Il catalogo della mostra in corso alla Biblioteca dell'Archiginnasio di Bologna.SOMMARIOLa sezione Architettura dell'Archivio storico dell'Università di Bologna compie vent'anni (1996–2016).Due mostre per celebrarla, Gian Paolo Brizzi.I. Cultura del progetto.Sant'Elia a Bologna: la "folgorazione", Giuliano Gresleri.Nascita della cultura tecnica, Paolo Lipparini.II. Bologna si rinnova.Belle e…
Architects and engineers both claim to be designers, though how they define design and the approaches they use to realize it, vary widely. However their interaction has also created some of the world's most memorable, enduring and impressive buildings. The unprecedented impact of digital technologies illuminates the complexity and non-linearity of the process that these designers go through whi…
Supertight is an exploration of high-density urban life and reducing the footprint of cites through adaptations in design and behavior. Tightness is a positive urban quality, examined through the observations of designers, with a focus on the cities of Asia. The rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways…