Arquitectura y ciudad

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and...

Perspectives on how the city is Imagined in Latin America. Focussing on Latin America as an urban case study, an examination of urban imaginaries and the construct of our relationships with cities. Perspectives from anthropologists, sociologists, artists, and psychologists.

"Barcelona" presents a study-in text and photographic image-of one of the most architecturally fascinating and impressive cities in the world. From the Gaudí cathedral to Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón's recent Centre de Cultura Contemporània, from the Palau de la Musica to the Dali Museum, what we find is a city whose magnificent strength lies in the coexistence of its amazingly diverse and historically disparate variety of structures. The city of Barcelona absorbs new influences and maintains traditions organically, avoiding a sense of fragmentation for a sense of exuberance and...

Cincuenta años después de la primera edición original alemana, Sistemas de estructuras sigue siendo un manual clásico y al mismo tiempo innovador. Se ha convertido en uno de los tratados de referencia del diseño de estructuras en arquitectura, gracias a una original aproximación que renuncia explícitamente al enfoque tipológico y al uso de textos teóricos y cálculos matemáticos para centrarse en el funcionamiento estructural mediante gráficos. Rigurosamente ordenado y articulado, el libro presenta los diferentes sistemas de estructuras a través de series de dibujos y pequeñas...