Luis Restrepo

De manera sencilla, este libro propone una guía para que el estudiante analice el ciclo de los materiales, desde diferentes metodologías y estrategias dentro del aula de clase y fuera de ella, a partir de fichas de análisis, visitas de campo y elaboración de modelos. Ello le permitirá visualizar todos los componentes que intervienen en el ciclo de vida de un material, los residuos que se generan en el proceso constructivo y el correcto uso que debe hacerse de estos para minimizar los desechos. En últimas, también es una invitación a reflexionar sobre cómo hacer frente desde la...

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...

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

L’obra arquitectònica de Lluís Domènech i Montaner culmina al Palau de la Música Catalana, joia modernista i centre musical de Barcelona des de 1908. Si la seva façana sorprèn, la sala de concerts, amb la seva curiosa estructura de temple i teatre, és una de les més belles del món.