ARQUITECTURAS EFIMERAS

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...

Les noms de Paul Guinard et de Marcel Durliat suffisent à prouver la tradition ancienne liant l'Université de Toulouse-le Mirail à la production artistique espagnole. En 2007, le département d'histoire de l'art de cette université, avec le soutien de la Casa de Velâzquez, a initié un cycle de trois journées d'études sur le thème des échanges artistiques entre la France et l'Espagne. Rassemblant des universitaires et des doctorants, elles ont successivement portées sur l'architecture (novembre 2007), la sculpture (mars 2009) et la peinture (mai 2010). Le présent recueil, qui...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

Se intenta aquí desarrollar ideas que faciliten la comprensión de la contemporaneidad del historicismo arquitectónico con su tiempo. Lo que no apunta a una justificación, a un elogio o a una disculpa. Sólo se busca comprender un acto aparentemente desatinado. A pesar de sus ganas de revivir el pasado, el "juramento de los Horacios" seguirá siendo una pintura de fines del siglo XVIII y la iglesia de La Madelaine, un templo típico de principios del 1900. Ninguno de los dos será romano o griego según las preferencias de sus autores. Este ensayo intenta, no sin temeridad, arrimar...