Materiales de urbanismo 2011.13

La presente obra reúne materiales básicos de naturaleza diversa, correspondiente a la asignatura Urbanística I, tal como se ha venido impartiendo en los últimos cursos. Su punto de partida es la consideración de algunas de las grandes tradiciones compositivas en las que se ha centrado recientemente la reflexión urbanística internacional. Su propósito fundamental es romper con la imagen evolutiva y monolítica habitual que presentan ciertas visiones académicas y proporcionar a los estudiantes algunas nociones esenciales para introducirlos en el mundo del urbanismo. Se trata, en...

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.

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 ...

Invita a reflexionar sobre el paisaje como expresión social de cierto orden territorial y de las relaciones intrínsecas que lo sustentan. En esa dinámica, emerge un nuevo estatus de lugar mediante marcas simbólicas que remiten a percepciones sensoriales, a representaciones colectivas, a construcciones subjetivas. Este tipo de intervenciones, realizadas como caracterizaciones, delimitaciones y diferenciaciones de lugares y de actores, permite reconocer discursos de segregación, de pugnas, de desigualdades. Para ahondar sobre estas cuestiones, toma como caso de estudio el área de borde...

This well-illustrated Spanish-language book retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500, showing the extraordinary synchronicity of this architecture with that of other Old World societies. Featured cities include Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center; Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center; and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2,500 glyphs.