La impronta del ladrillo

With numerous maps, photographs and illustrations, this volume presents a detailed and intelligent analysis of the city.

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 ...

Acosados por la privatización, la planificación urbanística obsesiva, la vigilancia policial y la especulación, los espacios que habitamos se vuelven cada vez más inhóspitos, recipientes cerrados que coartan la acción y limitan la experiencia vibrante que constituía la riqueza humana de las grandes ciudades. Cincuenta años después de la publicación de su clásico Los usos del desorden, en el que Richard Sennett alertó por primera vez sobre los efectos nocivos que la proyección de modelos preconcebidos y rígidos sobre el entorno urbano tenía sobre aquellos a los que pretendían...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿