Suelo urbano y vivienda social en Bogotá

Esta versión en castellano se corresponde a la traducción de la edición original publicada en inglés en 1951. De este modo, se pretende recuperar uno de los textos más reconocidos del arquitecto urbanista Steen E. Rasmussen y contribuir a su difusión entre estudiosos y amantes de la arquitectura. El autor con su obra pretende incitar al lector a que mire la ciudad como una entidad que expresa determinados ideales, y los edificios y monumentos singulares que la componen, como la parte de un todo. Las ciudades no se estudian aquí de un modo idéntico o de acuerdo a un método particular, ...

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 The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview).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...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

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...