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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.

Who ever said you can't have it all? This highly useful and decorative guide profiles lodgings around the world where you can enjoy the hippest of hospitality without breaking the bank. Including affordable hotels in locales as varied as Amsterdam and Cape Town, this guide makes sure your vacation fantasies can become reality.

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

La presente obra ofrece al lector un conocimiento más profundo y detallado de los acontecimientos y tendencias más relevantes de la arquitectura moderna entre 1922 y 1945 en los Países Bajos. Nace con el objetivo de ser un trabajo de referencia en español, dada la ausencia prácticamente total de bibliografía en nuestro idioma sobre el tema.

Como en el texto homónimo de Julio Cortázar este libro ofrece lecturas alternativas dependiendo del orden. La razón primera de su publicación es la recuperación de tres textos escritos a modo de prólogo para otro libro dedicado a una de las obras maestras de Eleuterio Población Knappe, el edificio «Beatriz». Son tres pequeños rubíes que decantan la experiencia y los saberes de tres importantes arquitectos en el panorama español del último tercio del siglo XX y de los primeros años del XXI. Cada uno de ellos merece un análisis atento y pormenorizado y puede leerse...