Manual de arquitectura bioclimática

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...

Se estudian una serie de dibujos originales, ligados al proceso de proyecto y ejecución de diferentes edificios de Sevilla y su provincia en los primeros años del siglo XVII.

Tradicionalmente a las emociones se le ha dado un rol complementario y hasta secundario, cuando la realidad, por lo menos para el marketing, la cuestión es totalmente distinta. Una de las preguntas que debemos hacernos en este sentido es: ¿por qué no interpretamos todo lo que las emociones generan en nuestra vida cotidiana y en particular lo que tiene que ver con nuestro consumo? La respuesta, es también simple, lo cierto es que las emociones actúan de manera inconsciente. También sabemos que casi toda la memoria (95%) se almacena en el inconsciente de las personas, en lo que llamamos...

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...