Casas internacional 183: Extremadura

La piel arquitectónica ¿puede tener vida propia? ¿Cómo ha cambiado el rostro de nuestros edificios y de nuestras ciudades en los últimos años? ¿Cuáles son las principales causas de las transformaciones que afectan a los límites? La autora nos propone una lectura de la fachada como máscara de la arquitectura, filtro en el que se registran los devenires naturales y los cambios impuestos por la evolución tecnológica, el consumo y la moda. Un recorrido que nos conduce desde la máscara primitiva a la máscara electrónica, entendida como interfaz entre el cuerpo y el paisaje natural y ...

The publication presents the last four years of research academic projects as well as architectural, landscape, urban development and industrial design projects developed by students and teachers from the Coordinación de Vinculación y Proyectos Especiales of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. The catalogue comprises detail information of 21 projects.

"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 comprehensive round-up features the many door and window types available today, including the most recent technical advances and design trends, with a focus on innovative materials, styles and shapes.