Volumen 16 La Casa

Adolf Loos (1870-1933), riconosciuto come uno dei più significanti profeti dell'architettura moderna, era una star dei suoi tempi, conosciuto come un dandy audace e moralista che sfidava l'establishment. Le sue opere rappresentano non solo l'inizio del modernismo, ma introdussero anche il concetto di architettura degli spazi. Loos pubblicò anche numerosi saggi durante la sua vita, il più notevole dei quali è lo spesso incompreso "Ornament and crime". Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

El libro presenta nueve trabajos que reflexionan acerca de la producción de Hábitat, tanto sea a nivel material como a nivel conceptual y académico. Plantea interrogantes acerca de cómo se enseña en las facultades de arquitectura, qué argumentos participativos sostiene el Hábitat para producirse, qué se hace desde el Estado en virtud de la problemática del Hábitat, qué posibilidades existen fuera de las convenciones y hegemonías para producir un Hábitat más justo. Estas reflexiones se sumergen en relatos de estilo científico y también de estilo literario narrativo y procura...

Describes the degree and license mechanisms for the professional practice of architecture in Peru from the first courses in the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, with a detailed presentation of the school formation of the architects from 1910 to 1950 in the School of Engineering of the university. The book was originally the author's masters thesis and won the prize "Héctor Velarde" during the XI Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura, organized in 2004 by CAP.

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,...