Campus Oriente

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.

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.

This volume displays several subjects in relation to the house projected and constructed by O'Gorman for Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in San Angel, that are considered first of the funcionalist style for O'Gorman. The Rivera and Kahlo house is detailed as to theory, plan and use. It also includes the way in which Diego and Frida lived in those spaces.

94.000 caracteres 105 fotos a color 25 fotos en b/n 20 ilustraciones 85 planos arquitectónicos. Construir sobre el agua puede parecer una idea revolucionaria, compleja técnicamente y que remite a imágenes futuristas de sofisticadas estructuras anfibias. Sin embargo, estamos hablando de una de las tipologías de arquitectura vernácula más antiguas y que más se ha extendido en nuestro planeta el palafito. Se trata de una construcción sobre el agua, levantada sobre pilotes, y que abarca un amplio espectro de composiciones, desde viviendas individuales hasta complejos asentamientos de...