Design de Interiores Contemporâneo

With the rapid developments in renewable resources over the last few years, environmentally-friendly housing is no longer the pipe-dream of a few radical architects and ecologists, it is now a firm reality. Small Eco Houses is a superbly illustrated volume that showcases the latest trends and architectural solutions for eco-housing. It also explores how research into alternative materials and new ways to apply traditional prime materials have paved the way for a whole new range of design options that mean aesthetics and comfort no longer have to be compromised to achieve sustainable...

With the rapid developments in renewable resources over the last few years, environmentally-friendly housing is no longer the pipe-dream of a few radical architects and ecologists, it is now a firm reality. Small Eco Houses is a superbly illustrated volume that showcases the latest trends and architectural solutions for eco-housing. It also explores how research into alternative materials and new ways to apply traditional prime materials have paved the way for a whole new range of design options that mean aesthetics and comfort no longer have to be compromised to achieve sustainable...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

Aquesta publicació recull un conjunt d´intervencions en edificis industrials històrics, construïts a Catalunya durant el període entre final del segle XVIII i mitjan segle XX, destinats inicialment a la producció tèxtil. Aquesta elecció de l´objecte de treball no és casual, sinó que respon al període en què tingué lloc una excepcional expansió d´aquest tipus d´activitat a Catalunya i que, de fet, va assentar les bases del futur industrial del país. Una situació que explica moltes de les característiques i similituds dels edificis considerats. Un mateix ús i uns mitjans...

La evangelización de los distintos grupos étnicos que constituían el Virreinato de la Nueva España fue una labor desarrollada durante todo el Quinientos por tres órdenes de frailes medicantes: Franciscanos, Dominicos y Agustinos. Para materializarla se concibió y desarrolló una tipología arquitectónica nueva que hemos denominado "Arquitectura de la Conversión", formada por cuatro unidades constructivas básicas: atrio, capilla abierta, capillas posas y cruz de piedra. Esta arquitectura se caracteriza por la unión de elementos culturales procedentes del mundo indígena y del mundo...