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Las catedrales góticas, asombrosas hazañas de la construcción y la ingeniería procedentes de un periodo anterior a las estructuras de acero y a las máquinas industriales, siguen resultando, cientos de años después de su construcción, impresionantes por su escala y grandeza. Centrado en la época dorada de la construcción de estos símbolos históricos de la fe cristiana, Cómo construir una catedral examina uno a uno cada elemento de la estructura, desde la planta hasta la culminación de la aguja, y explica el proceso de construcción medieval en detalle. Escrito por uno de los más ...

Directory of the International Union of Architects, containing by-laws, ethics, competition regulations, committee meeting dates and locations, committee member listings, country member listings and a brief historical sketch of the union.

The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. These topical developments have been taken into consideration. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind...

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.