Reconversión sustentable de edificios

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,...

Text (in Spanish) and images complement each other to create a narrative thread that offers informative insights into the architect's intellectual and visual imagination and expands our understanding of Olgiati's oeuvre.

Whether we live in a house in the country or in a city home, a terrace is an increasingly cherished luxury that opens living space out to the exterior and creates more direct contact with nature. Spectacular and of varied design, some are on the roofs, some are fitted with a solarium, while others boast a garden. Over the course of 136 pages and with more than 140 spectacular photos in colour, Terrace Design offers a complete selection of terraces set in the country, by the sea and in the city. An original compilation that will inspire a new terrace or refurbishment and that offers valuable...

Para quienes estamos comprometidos con el desarrollo de nuevas estrategias de conocimiento y actuación dentro del planeamiento ambiental, la presente obra de Alberto Magnaghi puede ser considerada un auténtico hito dentro del proceso de evolución de esta disciplina. Esta apreciación no es una presunción apresurada, sino que se basa en la constatación de que estamos ante un cambio epistémico fundamental dentro del proceso de evolución de la disciplina tras superar los reduccionismos propios de las visiones funcionalistas y biocéntricas sobre el entorno. Nos encontramos ahora frente a...