La Existencia, el Lugar y la Arquitectura

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

La Protección Pasiva contra Incendios es la medida primaria integrada a los elementos de construcción de un inmueble para brindar una seguridad y protección contra el fuego inherente, respondiendo contra las llamas, el calor y el humo para mantener los requerimientos fundamentales de la compartimentación de los espacios del inmueble, su estabilidad estructural, la separación del fuego y una ruta de evacuación segura. Las medidas de la PPCI alcanzan su propósito de diseño incrementando la resistencia estructural de la estructura del inmueble, protegiendo a la estructura contra los...