Castillos y fortificaciones de Galicia

"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...

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. These topical developments have been taken into consideration. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind...

Este libro registra las ponencias presentadas en los Coloquios: Teoría de la Arquitectura y Teoría del Proyecto realizados en noviembre de 2001 y 2002. El compilador debe ser fiel a lo que registra como el punto central más conflictivo del debate que los convoca: la polémica sobre el interés, o mejor la necesidad de la existencia del campo específico de la teoría, para la arquitectura. No son pocas las voces autorizadas de ambas posiciones, a favor y en contra de la misma. Menciona los autores y aportes que hace cada uno al debate. Algunos, como Bourdieu, alertan sobre el riesgo de tal ...

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...