Escritos

This comprehensive round-up features the many door and window types available today, including the most recent technical advances and design trends, with a focus on innovative materials, styles and shapes.

Entornos Vitales es un manual practico que presenta graficamente una serie de criterios y situaciones que permiten enriquecer los proyectos con un mayor nivel de permeabilidad, variedad, versatilidad, riqueza visual y otras cualidades que hacen de un espacio arquitectonico un entorno mas humano y vital. Los autores parten de la denuncia de la deshumanizacion de la arquitectura moderna y plantean una serie de medidas practicas para conseguir disenos mas proximos al ciudadano. En este sentido, no se pretende establecer ni una teoria ni una historia de la arquitectura, sino aportar un conjunto...

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...

With the rapid developments in renewable resources over the last few years, environmentally-friendly housing is no longer the pipe-dream of a few radical architects and ecologists, it is now a firm reality. Small Eco Houses is a superbly illustrated volume that showcases the latest trends and architectural solutions for eco-housing. It also explores how research into alternative materials and new ways to apply traditional prime materials have paved the way for a whole new range of design options that mean aesthetics and comfort no longer have to be compromised to achieve sustainable...