The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and...

This number of the monographic series is dedicated to restoration specialist, architect and watercolor painter Villa Chávez (b. Mexico). This extensive study of Villa Chávez life and architecture is divided in 2 parts: the first reviews his academic career and his professional practice in Guadalajara and Colima. A second part reviews in detail his restoration projects, his architecture, his open space interventions and his pictorial production (watercolors and drawings). Amongst other academic contributions Villa Chávez founded the School of Architecture in the University of Colima and was ...

Principalmente dirigido a estudiantes de arquitectura, este libro proporciona una accesible introducción a los aspectos más importantes de la tecnología arquitectónica: física estructural, formas y componentes, calefacción, iluminación, control ambiental y modelado por ordenador. El libro proporciona una sólida base sobre estos temas, a la vez que ayuda a los estudiantes a encontrar soluciones a problemas de estructura y entorno que pueden plantearse en sus proyectos.

La naturaleza como fuente de innovación para empaques. Explorar la naturaleza del embalaje significa observar de cerca cómo la vida envuelve, protege, contiene, preserva e incluso transporta y comunica sus palpitantes creaciones, con la intención de descubrir de qué manera ha resuelto los problemas y aciertos que enfrenta el diseño industrial de embalajes: ¿qué geometrías permiten aprovechar mejor el espacio y el material? ¿Qué lecciones encierran los huevos de gallina o las conchas de los moluscos a propósito de protección a impactos? ¿Qué nos enseñan las envolturas de...