Barcelona

An architecture school celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing representative student work, but concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to mere image-making. Instead of listing projects by type or name, it was decided they would be presented in question format (bilingually), underlining the importance of inquiry over image. Question entries numbered from 1 to 100 (grouped by theme) predetermined the books format. Elegance (it is about architecture) and informality (but also about students) had to be...

A compilation of essays that have been written by academics and professionals; from various points of view, perspectives and theories into post-modern architecture.

Este libro recopila una serie de conversaciones y reflexiones surgidas a partir del trabajo realizado en la Escuela de Arquitectura de Alicante durante los cursos 2009-2010 y 2010-2011, que a su vez partían de una investigación llevada a cabo en el curso académico 2008-2009 en la Graduate School of Design (GSD) de la Harvard University y que se habían planteado como una serie de tres años de trabajo académico con nuevos modelos urbanos que integraban metodologías de diseño digital con cuestiones ecológicas. La serie fue preparada para abarcar escenarios muy distintos, pero mantenían ...

A collection of articles from experts in different fields on Valencian architecture from the medieval to modern era, focusing on vaulted systems, and based on the idea that architecture begins with the conception of an idea and ends with the disappearance of the architectural work. This book seeks to combine the history of architecture with an investigation into distinct architectural forms of expression and representation.