Biblioteca Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

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.

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

El interés de Le Corbusier por la arquitectura del pasado aparece compartido por una generación de arquitectos italianos formados en la década de 1920, en los mismos años en los que se escribe y publica su Hacia una arquitectura. Este trabajo de investigación comienza siguiendo esta línea compartida de intereses y se estructura en torno a tres arquitectos italianos pertenecientes a la generación citada: Adalberto Libera (1903-1963), Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984) y Giueseppe Terragni (1904-1943) y, de manera más precisa, sobre el análisis de sus obras y proyectos realizados desde sus...