Historia de la forma urbana

A selection of the most prominent works of architecture selected by El Croquis with an introduction by Juan Antonio Cortés and an essay by William Curtis. Among the works are the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito, the Yokohama International Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, the Braga Municipal Stadium by Eduardo Souto de Moura, the Prada Aoyama Epicenter by Herzog & De Meuron, the Scottish Parliament building by EMBT, the Monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur by John Pawson, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art expansion by Steven Holl,...

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.

El libro presenta, en forma teórica y empírica, los aportes generados en la gestión urbanística a partir de la implementación de intervenciones de carácter mixto (público/público-público/privado) en vacíos urbanos de ciudades centrales, procurando desentrañar los marcos conceptuales, métodos y medios (mecanismos e instrumentos) de intervención planificada que sustenten nuevas y originales políticas públicas de gestión que permitan la reestructuración y recuperación de sectores urbanos degradados y obsoletos, con el fin de disputar aquellas políticas sustentadas en...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.