Kids Design

This book pays tribute to two important systems of architectural representation: the model and the photography. It rescues over one hundred original photographs of outstanding models - finally built or not built - in Spain during the twentieth-century. A modern, visual, critical and historiographical discourse of the first magnitude. Beyond the analysis of their technical or compositional structure, the book includes sample pictures by photographs like Catala- Roca, Kindel , Pando, Llado, Maspons - Ubina Gomez or Massats and architects as Aizpurua , de la Sota and Higueras

Si bien el umbral es la pieza que define el límite entre dos espacios debajo de una puerta, este texto presenta la noción de "Umbral" como transición. Conceptualiza la idea del ingreso a un edificio como un "lugar" que no es adentro ni afuera pero que es al mismo tiempo las dos cosas. Luego ejemplifica, a través de un recorrido de arquitecturas cercanas y lejanas en tiempo y geografía, situaciones de umbral que nos permiten reconocer el fenómeno en sus diversas manifestaciones. Este texto pretende sensibilizar a nuestros alumnos en la percepción de los espacios que nos acompañan...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.