Materiales en arquitectura

A collection of writings by Enrique Yañez to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death. The text presents an approach to life and observations of the architect, covering the fields of architecture, its social function, urbanism, society and culture.

The book analyses a selection of 10 houses and 14 buildings constructed in Costa Rica from 2000 to 2005 and that represent the current urban San Jose's growth trends. The domestic architecture reflects a higher purchasing power with an appreciation oh natural surroundings, the office and industrial buildings are aimed some at rescuing the historic downtown area while others were constructed in the suburban area of the city. Includes biographies of mentioned architects.

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...

La creciente conciencia por los temas medioambientales;la preocupación por la conservación de la naturaleza;y por el deterioro del planeta, y la amenaza real;del cambio climático, hacen imprescindible reducir;los impactos ambientales, buena parte de los cuales;son producidos por los edificios.;Para conseguir unos edificios sostenibles y descarbonizados es fundamental aplicar los criterios de sostenibilidad y de economía circular en ellos, para lo que se hace necesaria la herramienta de Análisis de Ciclo de Vida (ACV) como una metodología holística, en la que el sistema edificio...