La Investigación En La Arquitectura

Rem Koolhaas, fundador de OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), es uno de los arquitectos contemporáneos cuyo trabajo profesional y obra teórica ha ejercido mayor influencia en la arquitectura contemporánea. Este libro reúne una conferencia y un seminario celebrados en la Rice School of Architecture donde Koolhaas discute las implicaciones urbanas y arquitectónicas de la construcción de lo enorme, utilizando para ello tres ejemplos de proyectos a gran escala: la terminal marítima de Zeebrugge, la Biblioteca de Francia y el Centro ZKM de Karlsruhe. El libro reúne, de una manera...

As part of the celebration of the Symposium "Shell and Spatial Structures: New Materials and Technologies, New Designs and Innovations -- A Sustainable Approach to Architectural and Structural Design" of the International Association of Special Structures (IASS-SLTE) held October 23-31, 2008 in Acapulco, the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM developed 3 projects specifically for the occasion: 1) An exhibition of representative scale models of the "golden age" (1950-1975) of the construction of reinforced concrete shells in Mexico; 2) A documentary featuring the characteristics and evolution ...

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,...

Este livro reúne cinco projectos de arquitectura de habitação do arquitecto Ricardo Vieira de Melo. As fotografias de exterior e interior apresentam detalhes excepcionais. Prefácio de João Rapagão.