La arquitectura como técnica

A set of essays on the modern architecture in the city of Bogota. The articles are the result of the concerns of the authors around the utility of the buildings that make up the history of modern architecture in the country for the understanding of the problems of the contemporary city. The raised arguments include project dimensions, which includes urban, landscape, building and technique.ʺ--Back cover (translated by Karno Books).

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.

"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...

Este es el tercer volumen de la serie titulada "Hábitats y sociedades del Pacífico", que presenta los resultados de un programa de investigación adelantado en la última década por los autores, integrantes del grupo Hábitat Pacífico del CITCE de la Universidad del Valle, y que culminó en 1999 con el estudio "Sistemas Urbano-aldeanos del Pacífico", cofinanciado por COLCIENCIAS (Código 1106-13-619-95). El primer volumen se dedicó al poblamiento, la colonización campesina y el sistema aldeano de "La bahía de Solano" (2001). Con el segundo se recorrió la trayectoria y el pasado de la ...