Estética de la arquitectura

This book revolves around the drawings and scale models especially selected by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, who was conferred the degree of Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in 2009. The personal selection done by PMdR resulted in a publishing project that included the participation of a group of academics from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina convened so that, by means of short texts, freely elaborated their perspective on those drawings. The book is, therefore, the result of a collective work whose purpose is to think the architecture from its most common...

Actualmente, para la mayoría, promotor es aquel que gestiona el proceso de la construcción de viviendas y obtiene plusvalías, en suma, el protagonista de la burbuja inmobiliaria. Aunque también lo es quien gestiona la construcción de su propia casa. Inicialmente la decisión de convertirse en autopromotor nace del deseo o necesidad de personalizar la casa, pero precisa de tanta voluntad y esfuerzo que la mayoría acaba renunciando a sus aspiraciones y comprando un producto estándar. Para todos aquellos que no se conforman con una de esas viviendas genéricas en urbanizaciones...

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

7 papers presented at the simposium "Arquitectura y Percepción" in 2005. The emphasis was on architecture of the 1960's and 1970's.