El agua en Toledo y su entorno

Bioarquitectura indaga desde diversos ángulos los principios naturales de las edificaciones animales y humanas, compilando, por primera vez, gran parte de los conocimientos que dan origen y conforman la arquitectura orgánica.

No es sencillo interpretar las profundas alteraciones sufridas en la Arquitectura en las últimas décadas y experimentadas anteriormente en el Arte. Este libro explica el origen y desarrollo de nuevas formas y espacios surgidos en estas disciplinas desde la influencia de la Ciencia y la Geometría. Por un lado, se describe la superación conceptual del espacio tradicional (euclídeo tridimensional) por el hiperespacio y el espacio-tiempo de la Relatividad. Por otra parte, se explica la génesis y desarrollo de formas inéditas, modelizadas en las "nuevas" geometrías no euclídeas, aunque...

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...