Casas de la vieja Cuba

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 ...

En los años 60 se definía una disciplina científica, la "Arqueología industrial" cuya finalidad "es el descubrimiento, la catalogación y el estudio de los restos físicos del pasado industrial para conocer a través de ellos aspectos de las condiciones del trabajo, de los procesos técnicos y de los procesos productivos". La nueva disciplina adopta la metodología de la Arqueología para investigar, analizar, interpretar, registrar y preservar los restos industriales. Se entiende como industrial toda actividad productiva cuyos vestigios materiales consisten en edificios, instalaciones,...

The book is devoted to young architect Christian Wiese's architecture firm, presenting a selection of buildings that reflect international tendencies harmoniously combined with Ecuador's heritage and values. His already prolific and international well recognized practice includes technologically advanced buildings, characteristic for their clarity and transparency and unique for his masterly manipulation of interior and exterior space light interaction.