Joyas de Cantabria

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.

La figura del jefe de obra resulta imprescindible en la construccion actual. Es un vertice en el que confluyen los intereses, muchas veces cruzados, de los distintos agentes del proceso edificatorio definidos en la LOE. Ejercer tan delicada funcion no requiere sin embargo, una titulacion academica especifica. El proposito de este libro es proporcionar conocimientos y fomentar la reflexion a aquellos que desean adentrarse en el complejo mundo de la direccion ejecutiva de las obras. Asimismo, pone en evidencia las carencias que padecen estos profesionales para formarse de forma reglada, de lo...

As part of the celebration of the Symposium "Shell and Spatial Structures: New Materials and Technologies, New Designs and Innovations -- A Sustainable Approach to Architectural and Structural Design" of the International Association of Special Structures (IASS-SLTE) held October 23-31, 2008 in Acapulco, the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM developed 3 projects specifically for the occasion: 1) An exhibition of representative scale models of the "golden age" (1950-1975) of the construction of reinforced concrete shells in Mexico; 2) A documentary featuring the characteristics and evolution ...

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...