Análisis de estructuras

El gran desarrollo de los métodos de cálculo numérico producido por la aparición de los ordenadores, ha enmascarado los enormes progresos de la teoría de estructuras realizados durante el siglo XX. Los programas de ordenador manejan con facilidad la teoría clásica elástica que conduce a soluciones únicas. Sin embargo, existe una evidencia experimenta abrumadora que indica que estas soluciones no representan la forma en la que la estructura resiste sus cargas.El cálculo plástico o análisis límite nace como una respuesta a este problema. El estado “real” de la estructura es muy ...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

Una de las experiencias arquitectónicas más interesantes es la resolución de viviendas urbanas, donde entran en juego diversos condicionantes tales como lotes estrechos, entornos que influyen por el asoleamiento y las visuales, la necesidad de conformar una lectura urbana y la recuperación de antiguas construcciones. Dentro de estas 11 casas encontramos problemáticas comunes, por ejemplo, la optimización climática, el pensamiento espacial, la economía de recursos. Éstos son aprovechados mediante distintas respuestas y procedimientos: cubiertas retráctiles que permiten captar el sol...

A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...