Arquitectonics

El presente libro establece los fundamentos de un saber hacer arquitectura que no se identifique unicamente con el espacio de la construccion, en concordancia con las posturas humanistas de Occidente. Se estructura en tres partes complementarias, dedicadas a las tres dimensiones basicas de la arquitectura: la estetica, la etica-politica y la cientifica, unidas a traves de un nucleo dialogico-social del hecho arquitectonico que da solidez, simultaneamente, tanto al diseno arquitectonico como a su construccion y a su uso. El libro se complementa con un amplio anexo que contiene la version...

A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

Este libro presenta una serie de reflexiones, relatos, dibujos y obras de arquitectos realizados entre los años 2005 y 2008. Son el reflejo del ejercicio profesional, de llegar a la comprensión de las necesidades del usuario y volcarlas en el proyecto

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.