Ciencia y tecnología para el Hábitat popular 2010

¿Y QUÉ SIGNIFICA REALMENTE ACCESIBILIDAD? Se dice comúnmente, ”es un hombre (o una mujer) educado(a)…”, porque sigue las reglas y costumbres sociales aceptadas. Una de las grandes premisas de la educación, más allá de informar, es formar. Educación según el Nuevo Pequeño Larousse Ilustrado (1) es “Acción de desarrollar las facultades físicas, intelectuales y morales”, más allá del acto de instruir. Asimismo es el acto de mostrar “conocimiento de los usos de la sociedad”

London is famous for Big Ben; Paris for the Eiffel Tower; Rome for the Colosseum. Barcelona, on the other hand, is not identified by one or two famous buildings as these other European cities, but rather by an entire movement of turn-of-the-century architecture known simply as Modernisme. Familiar to Americans as art nouveau, its most famous practitioner was the artist and architect Antoni Gaudi. But the city is filled with superb examples of art nouveau in vivid color in Barcelona Art Nouveau. This book offers a tour of 46 houses, public buildings, and monuments in the art-nouveau style,...

"Architecture & Design Australia" is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients that continue to set the scene for the country's exciting architectural language. An index with contact information of the featured architects and designers is enclosed.

Este livro reúne cinco projectos de arquitectura de habitação do arquitecto Ricardo Vieira de Melo. As fotografias de exterior e interior apresentam detalhes excepcionais. Prefácio de João Rapagão.