Un Mundo Brutal (This Brutal World) (Spanish Edition)

Los trabajos aquí compilados toman como eje de reflexión la pieza de diseño en su dimensión pragmática. ¿Con qué se diseña, utilizando qué códigos? ¿Cómo se construye el sentido, mediante qué diálogos? ¿Quién habla en la pieza de diseño? ¿Quiénes intervienen en la enunciación? ¿Cómo lograr adhesión? ¿Cómo se muestra una institución? Estas preguntas fundamentales son el punto de partida de los autores para analizar los códigos de la comunicación visual, los conceptos de intertextualidad y género, los componentes de la enunciación, la argumentación retórica y la...

Taking as a starting point a design for a mobile theater made at the Architectural Association of London between 1970 and1971 by Spanish architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (born 1942), this book traces the architectural counterculture of that time and the relations with the alternative performing arts. Architect Javier Navarro de Zuvillaga (1942) graduated in 1968 at Madrid School of Architecture. During the academic year 1970-1971 he travelled from Madrid to London thanks to a grant of the British Council to complete his postgraduate training at the Architectural Association. There he...

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.

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 ...