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The private single family house is still very much the preferred choice of home. Yet in recent years there have been many changes not only in the personal situations of the residents, their expectations and desires, but also in the rising costs of energy and raw materials. This has meant that issues such as multi-functionalism, the use of innovative building materials or energy-efficient building methods are increasing in significance. These topical developments have been taken into consideration. The authors introduce floor plan solutions using contemporary projects which bear in mind...

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...

Este libro, más allá de la reflexión sobre los temas tratados en el evento que se realizó entre el 14 y el 16 de noviembre de 2018, revela preocupaciones colectivas acerca del manejo del territorio, la ciudad y la arquitectura contemporánea en diferentes escalas que interactúan entre sí, lo que vuelve complejo entretejer los elementos de la discusión en donde el conocimiento de lo local en cada uno de los contextos del continente es indispensable para comprender la diversidad y heterogeneidad que nos caracteriza. Los temas del territorio a la arquitectura han sido los grandes...

"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...