Temas de resistencia de materiales

- Martin Parr (b.1952) is one of the best-known and most influential British photographers working today, acclaimed for his frank chronicling of life and society - This introductory monograph charts Parr's entire career including early black and white photographs, unpublished images made over the last five years, and works from all his major projects, including The Last Resort and Think of England - Parr is a prolific book-maker and collector, as well as a long-standing member of the Magnum Photos agency. This new title is an affordable companion to his other Phaidon publications which...

Este libro es el resultado de varios años de docencia en la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (FADU) de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, dedicados a la enseñanza de las distintas ramas de la Física que tienen relación con el quehacer arquitectónico y el diseño. Pero todo libro es una síntesis de largos años de estudio, investigación y numerosas experiencias enseñando y aprendiendo, lo que luego se condensará en una reducida cantidad de hojas. Y al margen de la vocación de escribir, suele haber algún disparador que genera la idea de abocarse a un tema en particular, por ...

The Magic Box, carried out by Dominique Perrault Architecture, is more than a public sports facility. It is a whole conceptual, urbanistic and constructive manifesto through the insertion of a radically contemporary building in a sensitive environment, which has helped to regenerate the southern edge of the city of Madrid and to round off the urban banks of the Manzanares River. The book includes unpublished texts by Andreas Ruby (a didactic essay) and Hans Ulrich Ibrist (an exclusive interview). It also includes a technical dossier dedicated to the construction of the building highly...

The English edition of In Detail: Interior Spaces has sold over 5000 copies since it was released in 2002. This highly successful volume, looking at materials, lighting, colours and the technical aspects of interior design, is now also available in Romanic language editions.