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A Compilation of 30 Innovative Architectonic Inventions in Catalonia. The architecture produced in Catalonia has often been in the vanguard of Europe, especially since Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympics. This book is an exciting overview of innovative spaces and techniques made in Catalonia, presenting a cross section of 'products' as well as the buildings and environments for which they were conceived. The products solve specific program requirements, new social demands, environmental needs, budget limitations and design aspirations to improve on the status quo. They are proving grounds of...

La presente edicion, ampliada especialmente por el autor respecto a la segunda edicion inglesa, presenta una historia internacional completa del desarrollo de la forma urbana desde las primeras ciudades de la antiguedad hasta los albores de las Revoluciones Industriales en Europa y hasta la Guerra Civil de 1861 en los EE.UU. de America.

La hegemonía del pensamiento, y sobre todo de la propaganda neoliberal, han abierto una profunda brecha entre el poder constituido y las necesidades reales de la mayoría de la población (desde los sectores populares a las clases medias urbanas) que sufre las consecuencias del ajuste sobre el ajuste, en una espiral de deterioro cuyo final no parece vislumbrarse. Las disciplinas del hábitat no son ajenas a esta crisis, y, al igual que el conjunto social, se debaten entre las urgencias laborales, los condicionamientos impuestos por la concentración de capitales y poderes decisorios y la...

"CEDODAL in collaboration with the Estrada family organized an exhibition and the present accompanying book that examines the life and professional career of Argentinean architect Estrada. The book gathers various authors who review in their texts the influence German architect Hermann Jansen had over the young Estrada, his integration to the National Forests project (1934) and his legacy in the planning of urban centers, infrastructure works and tourism and hotel architecture particularly in the Patagonian region. Estrada's culmination was the Civic Center of Bariloche, (today historic and...