Australia architecture & design

Esta libro muestra una seleccion de obras de alta calidad arquitectonica que tienen en comun dos caracterisiticas: todas ellas se encuentran ubicadas en un contexto urbano y manifiestan una actitud comun definida por los autores como una "modernaidad posracionalista." Las obras seleccionadas se agrupan en siete ciudades latinoamericanas: Santa Fe de Bogota, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, Mexico D.F., Santiago de Chile y Sao Paulo.

Located in Mexico City, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio is well known internationally for its use of traditional Mexican construction techniques, the highly sculptural effects of its buildings and its unusually collaborative approach toward each client. Founded by Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972) in 2004, its completed buildings include the Gratitude Open Chapel in La Ruta del Peregrino, Gabriel Orozco's house in Roca Blanca and the botanical garden in Culiacan. The enormous production of ideas and designs that takes place there is directed to different spaces, in which the architecture is deeply humanized. ...

Interest in living off the grid, i.e. self-sufficiently without relying on public services such as the municipal water supply, electricity, or local sewage and gas systems, has come on the scene as a greener, cheaper, and more independent way of life. Homes that are off-grid generally allow for a smaller carbon footprint, and a sense of freedom and self-sufficiency. Living Off-Grid sets you free from depending on a company, either using solar panels, wind turbines, a micro water system, or a combination of these technologies. Other times, an Off-Grid system can work as an energy backup or be...

Ver la arquitectura, entenderla y sentirla no es algo inmediato. Requiere un aprendizaje. Este libro es, ante todo, la apertura a un vocabulario, a un conjunto de términos a través de los cuales conceptualizamos y hacemos comunicable la experiencia de la arquitectura. Si, como dijera Wittgenstein, el conocimiento empieza en las palabras, entonces un libro de iniciación a la arquitectura es un libro que trata de glosar, de dotar de contenido ciertas palabras clave con las que, como si de una herramienta se tratara, hacer posible el montaje y el desmontaje de nuestra experiencia de la...