Movitectura: Arquitectura Móvil (Mobitecture) (Spanish Edition)

The subject of this artist's sketchbook is an artistic and environmental project that was inaugurated by Cristina Iglesias on November 6, 2010. It concerns an underwater labyrinth, consisting of three submerged rooms built in cement, in the waters off the Espiritu Santo Island in Baja California's Candelero Bay. This house will slowly be inhabited by life. The project was promoted by the Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental A.C. (Fundea), in collaboration with the marine biologists and conservationists of the La Paz Coasts and The San Diego Oceanography Institute. This portfolio...

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...

El presente volumen reúne por primera vez los escritos que Xenakis, una de las figuras más destacadas de la cultura europea de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, consagró a la arquitectura y a las relaciones entre esta disciplina y la música. El examen de sus archivos personales ha desvelado, entre otras cosas, la riqueza de este material -artículos, cartas, conferencias, escritos teóricos, reflexiones programáicas-, que completa los propios bocetos y proyectos arquitectónicos. Los originales de Xenakis (presentados y comentados por Sharon Kanach) se articulan en cuatro apartados: Los...

200 colour photos and plans ”One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced only last fall, the Paris and : guide provides tourists and professionals alike with an overview of new and notable architecture and interior design in "the city of light." More than sixty buildings-governmental and residential, commercial and religious-by renowned architects such as Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and I. M. Pei to name a few, are profiled and accompanied by color photographs. Easy to use and attractively designed with flexi covers, these CD-sized gems will be a...