Ciencia y tecnología para el Hábitat popular 2010

Filled with pictures, sketches, and building plans, this tribute to an extraordinary Colombian architect presents 12 of his most significant projects spanning the decade before his death in October 2007. The buildings highlighted in this work include the National University of Colombia's department of humanities graduate school building, the Virgilio Barco public library in Bogotá, and Salmona's vacation home in Riofrío. Lleno de dibujos, esbozos, y planes de edificación , este tributo a un extraordinario arquitecto colombiano presenta 12 de sus proyectos más significativos desde la...

"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...

Tradicionalmente a las emociones se le ha dado un rol complementario y hasta secundario, cuando la realidad, por lo menos para el marketing, la cuestión es totalmente distinta. Una de las preguntas que debemos hacernos en este sentido es: ¿por qué no interpretamos todo lo que las emociones generan en nuestra vida cotidiana y en particular lo que tiene que ver con nuestro consumo? La respuesta, es también simple, lo cierto es que las emociones actúan de manera inconsciente. También sabemos que casi toda la memoria (95%) se almacena en el inconsciente de las personas, en lo que llamamos...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.