Gestión de Grandes Proyectos Urbanos en espacios metropolizados

Este livro reúne cinco projectos de arquitectura de habitação do arquitecto Ricardo Vieira de Melo. As fotografias de exterior e interior apresentam detalhes excepcionais. Prefácio de João Rapagão.

El objetivo principal de esta obra es presentar, de forma sencilla y a la vez rigurosa, los fundamentos del calculo de estructuras, de modo que el lector que emprenda el estudio de dicha disciplina pueda ir avanzando paso a paso en el conocimiento de la misma y al final posea unos conocimientos solidos e imprescindibles. El libro se inicia con una presentacion general de la elasticidad, como medio para introducir con amplitud y profundidad una serie de conceptos que seran de uso frecuente en todo su desarrollo. Posteriormente se aborda el estudio de la pieza elastica, de las ecuaciones de...

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...

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.