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Planet LEDA New Spectral Paradigm
Planet LED is a book filled with bright ideas. LED technology has long been recognized as a revolution in lighting capability and energy efficiency. Since its inception in the 1960's its development has known few boundaries, literally lighting the way of the future. There are pioneers in the field of design - many of whom are included in this publication - who explore the possibilities of LED l…
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Cultural HeritageNew Perspectives
The cultures today are extremely interconnected with each other.Lifestyles go beyond the borders of national cultures.The new forms of entanglement are a consequence of migratory processes, worldwide material and immaterial communications systems, economic interdependencies and dependencies.Important social changeshave allowed us to analyze new paradigms of Cultural Heritage andto open new pers…
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Cuestiones de diseñoEquilibrio inestable sobre campos imprecisos
El texto refiere al "conocimiento" puesto en relación con diferentes problemáticas del Diseño y la Arquitectura. Estas se plantean a través de la trayectoria académica y las reflexiones actuales de la autora. Presenta, a la vez, una compilación de sus ensayos, ponencias, conferencias, artículos, (algunos compartidos) integrados al texto. Las experiencias y reflexiones que se relatan en e…
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Reconocimiento de saberes
Llegamos a esta publicación a partir del trabajo conjunto, que compartimos durante tres años, en el marco del Proyecto "Recuperación de procesos de co-construcción interactoral del conocimiento, en el marco de una pluriversalidad cognitiva, para la transformación social en el campo del hábitat". En este sentido, la expresión de los ocho trabajos que se conforman este libro, es el resulta…
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Paisaje urbanoEstrategias para intervenir un riachuelo en ciernes
Invita a reflexionar sobre el paisaje como expresión social de cierto orden territorial y de las relaciones intrínsecas que lo sustentan. En esa dinámica, emerge un nuevo estatus de lugar mediante marcas simbólicas que remiten a percepciones sensoriales, a representaciones colectivas, a construcciones subjetivas. Este tipo de intervenciones, realizadas como caracterizaciones, delimitaciones…
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Aesthetics and Technology in BuildingThe Twenty-First-Century Edition
The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The "soaring beauty" of Pier Luigi Nervi's visionary designs and buildings changed cityscapes in the twentieth century. His uncanny ingenuity with reinforced concrete, combined with a gift for practical problem solving, revolutionized the use of open internal space in structures like arenas and…
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Beauty's RigorPatterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi
Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Pier Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came directly out of his economical, manual construction processes. The results were buildings that…
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Prairie CrossingCreating an American Conservation Community
Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban public policy that preserves 69 percent of the land as open space. The for-profit project has set out to do nothing less than use access to nature as a means to challenge America's failed culture of suburban sprawl. The first comprehensive look at an American conservation community,…
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CREATE!
This book shapes a thick network of experiences and crossed interests opened throughout last twenty-five years in the office NO.MAD and its founder Eduardo Arroyo. In its pages there are mixed reflections, anecdotes and creations that shape an exciting cocktail between living, thinking and creating. In some time of our physiological life something inside each one gets lost and the mind fills wi…
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From Control to Design
Parametric and algorithmic design are two of the fastest emerging, most radical technologies reshaping architecture today. This book presents six independent practices that explore current applications of parametric and algorithmic design techniques in architectural production. If the first generation of digital modeling programs allowed designers to conceive new forms and processes, a new bree…
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