La arquitectura patrimonial puertorriqueña y sus estilos

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.

Revisión de la arquitectura de Richard J. Neutra desde unos presupuestos teóricos que apuntan a la arquitectura como resultado de un proceso de creación natural, entendida tanto en su acepción de perteneciente a la Naturaleza como en aquella otra que habla de una cierta sencillez de la misma.

Esta obra pretende responder a numerosas cuestiones acerca de la relación entre infraestructura verde, actividad física y salud. Ofrece argumentos que sirven de base para un urbanismo que aproveche el potencial de la dimensión de los sistemas naturales del territorio, más conciliador con la naturaleza e integrador con diferentes escenarios territoriales. Se pretende, primero, la mejora del conocimiento sobre las ventajas e idoneidad de estrategias de planificación territorial fundamentadas en un enfoque ecológico; segundo, la propuesta de un marco metodológico para analizar la...