El proyecto arquitectónico

La palabra offshore tiene dos acepciones. La primera significa literalmente en el mar, alejado de la costa, y la segunda hace alusión a lo hecho, situado o registrado en el extranjero, especialmente para obtener beneficios de menores costes o impuestos, o de una regulación menos estricta. Habitamos nuestro día a día a través de personas, fuentes de energía, servicios y productos llevados lejos de nuestra costa y operando fuera de nuestra ley. Resulta difícil reparar en estas arquitecturas, ya sea porque permanecen convenientemente ocultas como porque hayamos asimilado su existencia con ...

High-end hotels have always been the setting for style and fantasy, a venue to see and be seen. This volume explores a relatively new trend, where major fashion houses take over the running of upscale hostelries. With every detail coordinated, from bed linens, to d????cor, china and glassware, the overall effect is of a chic jewel box, where every piece shines. We get a peek at glamorous hotels conceived and run with flair, by major fashion players like Bulgari, Christian Lacroix, Ferragamo, and Versace.

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...