Manual de arquitectura ecológica avanzada

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

Este libro está escrito usando una receta infalible para el fracaso: contentar a todos los que desean usar bien AutoCAD. Para los que empiezan, presenta el eficaz método de los tutoriales: una entrada rápida, por inmersión, en el manejo del programa, a base de realizar ejemplos paso a paso. No se explica la teoría o los comandos; simplemente, se dibuja. Es un curso acelerado y un quitamiedos. Para los que ya saben, se añaden unas lecciones monográficas que mejorarán su manera de trabajar con AutoCAD, con opciones y conceptos avanzados que no han tenido la oportunidad o el tiempo de...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

"Architecture & Design Australia" is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients that continue to set the scene for the country's exciting architectural language. An index with contact information of the featured architects and designers is enclosed.