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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...

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Principalmente dirigido a estudiantes de arquitectura, este libro proporciona una accesible introducción a los aspectos más importantes de la tecnología arquitectónica: física estructural, formas y componentes, calefacción, iluminación, control ambiental y modelado por ordenador. El libro proporciona una sólida base sobre estos temas, a la vez que ayuda a los estudiantes a encontrar soluciones a problemas de estructura y entorno que pueden plantearse en sus proyectos.

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