Bienvenidos a Bonfist

Los libros sobre historia de la teoría de las estructuras son escasos y se centran exclusivamente en el desarrollo de la teoría elástica. El presente libro acomete, por primera vez, la tarea de dar una visión completa, incluyendo el cálculo plástico, del desarrollo de la teoría de estructuras. El autor elige los episodios centrales y los estudia en detalle con un extraordinario rigor y claridad.

The Magic Box, carried out by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is more than a public sports facility. It is a whole conceptual, urbanistic and constructive manifesto through the insertion of a radically contemporary building in a sensitive environment, which has helped to regenerate the southern edge of the city of Madrid and to round off the urban banks of the Manzanares River. The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview). It also includes a technical dossier dedicated to the construction of the building highly...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.

Las transformaciones son inevitables. Se posan, intervienen, actualizan, adaptan, extienden, amplían: son la relación entre partes construidas en tiempos, materialidades y por actores diferentes. Este libro documenta la experiencia de estudiantes y docentes, que en dos ocasiones se aventuraron a Alemania para investigar las transformaciones edilicias a partir de sus estrategias y proyectos