Arquitectura & patrimonio sostenible

Con más de 7,500 millones de habitantes en el mundo, construir hábitats sustentables es un reto complejo. La proliferación de grandes y desordenadas concentraciones urbanas genera un deterioro en la calidad de vida, desigualdad y pobreza, así como la transformación y pérdida irreparable de ecosistemas, por lo que se vuelve urgente el actuar para paliar y revertir este fenómeno. Este libro recoge una selección de trabajos de investigación que se presentaron en el Congreso Internacional sobre Sustentabilidad en los Hábitats, realizado en 2016. Son seis propuestas elaboradas por...

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

A collection of writings by Enrique Yañez to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death. The text presents an approach to life and observations of the architect, covering the fields of architecture, its social function, urbanism, society and culture.