Arquitectura biológica 1

The Design of the home continues to be of great interest to both architects and designers. How to configure a living space according to the characteristics of a site and the specification of the client is still the starting point of any house project. However, the final solutions can be as diverse as they can be interesting. This publication takes a specific look at the way architecture will evolve when regarding inhabitations around the world due to climatic changes and different cultural expectations.

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.

Esta guía visual contiene el vocabulario empleado en arquitectura, dirigido no sólo a arquitectos y aparejadores sino especialmente a estudiantes y no iniciados en la materia que sienten inquietud por la arquitectura. Cada definición aparece acompañada de una ilustración o ejemplo visual en forma de diagramas y ejemplos fotográficos, sobre el tema tratado, asimismo, agrupa información complementaria acerca de los diferentes contextos. Encontramos, más de 250 palabras muy comunes en las áreas principales de la arquitectura y el diseño arquitectónico así como términos de interés...

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...