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The Design of the home continues to be of great interest to both architects and designers. How to configure a living space according to the characteristics of a site and the specification of the client is still the starting point of any house project. However, the final solutions can be as diverse as they can be interesting. This publication takes a specific look at the way architecture will evolve when regarding inhabitations around the world due to climatic changes and different cultural expectations.

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...

Caruso St John están convencidos de que los arquitectos modernos deberían poder elegir entre un interminable abanico de posibilidades culturales. Éste es también el planteamiento del libro. Su objetivo no es únicamente documentar los edificios y proyectos que ha realizado el estudio Caruso St John en Gran Bretaña y el continente europeo desde principios de los años noventa, sino que examina sobre todo la diversidad de sus fuentes en arquitectura, arte, diseño, literatura y filosofía. Caruso St John ven con escepticismo que la abstracción y la simplificación basten para crear...

Historical-documental biography of architect-engineer Antonio Arróniz Topete (b. Jalisco 1858-1926), "the engineer of red bricks". The book documents his life and work, considered to be of one of the most extensive and complete elaborated at the end of the Porfirio Diaz regime and the first decades of the 20th century in the State of Jalisco. The book studies his architectural legacy, such as the Ex Seminario Mayor de Guadalajara, transformed into the XV Zona Militar and now the Secretaría de Cultura of Jalisco, the Escuela de Artes y Oficios del Espíritu Santo (demolished in 1953), the...

Esta tesis presenta un instrumento para la gestión de la Renovación Urbana, en la que se articulan los componentes de enfoque al ciudadano y enfoque por procesos. La elaboración conceptual que la fundamenta, entiende la renovación como el mejoramiento, reconstrucción o sustitución del espacio edificado, mediante componentes técnicos, sociales, económicos, ambientales, culturales, organizacionales, normativos y políticos, digiridos a satisfacer necesidades ciduadanas y al mejoramiento integral del territorio. La Herramienta se dedica al análisis del Proyecto Tercer Milenio de...