Medianeria. Manual práctico

The book Did Someone Say Participate? has been published by the MIT Press in the year 2006. dpr-barcelona going on with it's philosophy to share interesting contents with our readers and having noticed that this amazing book talks about the most actual and contemporary topics (as it is participation and social projects with personal involvement, looking for a chance to make radical change in today’s cities) has decided to translate and distribute the book all over the world, especially in Latin America and Spain, to bring all Spanish-speakers the chance to get to know all the great projects ...

Quizás la evidencia más tangible a raíz de la globalización ha sido la confusión en los límites que solían definir la identidad urbana y la rural. Su gradual erosión dio paso a la proliferación de los suburbios. Buenos Aires, con el avenimiento de reformas económicas desde los tempranos 90` atravesó transformaciones radicales. ¿Qué nuevas tipologías y figuraciones han emergido de ellas? ¿Cuáles son sus reglas y dinámicas? Y, sobre todo, ¿en qué se basan sus potenciales? Este libro documenta un proyecto de investigación en urbanismo que intenta retratar este escenario...

Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

Now also available in Romanic language editions: In Detail: Solar Architecture, presenting advanced new technologies and sophisticated planning systems for architecture which looks beyond fossil fuels to the future.