Valparaíso. Un balcón urbano / An urban balcony

A collection of articles from experts in different fields on Valencian architecture from the medieval to modern era, focusing on vaulted systems, and based on the idea that architecture begins with the conception of an idea and ends with the disappearance of the architectural work. This book seeks to combine the history of architecture with an investigation into distinct architectural forms of expression and representation.

Este libro es un manual práctico y de fácil lectura sobre la construcción del espacio público de acuerdo a criterios de responsabilidad medioambiental, convirtiéndolo de ese modo, en un captador, gestor y optimizador de recursos para la ciudad. El manual destinado a los alumnos del grado de Arquitectura de la UPC y también puede ser de interés a alumnos de postgrado y profesionales del sector. Se estructura en cinco áreas: agua, verde, material, energía y atmósfera. Cada área cuenta con dos apartados: el primero de conceptos generales, donde se exponen casos de éxito reales e...

Among the many books available on Wright, William Allin Storrer's classic - now fully revised and updated - remains the only authoritative guide to all of Wright's built work.".

"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...