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This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

El trabajo proyectual debe lograr un delicado equilibrio entre la arquitectura y la finalidad del developer, esto es, un proyecto exitoso que brinde satisfactorio rendimiento económico a quienes realizaron la inversión. Es una relación que, a veces, puede parecer contradictoria, pero el arquitecto solamente puede realizar un buen proyecto cuando tiene un buen cliente -en este caso, un buen developer- y, a su vez, este necesita de un buen arquitecto para lograr un proyecto exitoso. Los distintos capítulos de este libro ofrecen siempre dos aspectos: la expresión conceptual del tema, por...

Describes the degree and license mechanisms for the professional practice of architecture in Peru from the first courses in the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, with a detailed presentation of the school formation of the architects from 1910 to 1950 in the School of Engineering of the university. The book was originally the author's masters thesis and won the prize "Héctor Velarde" during the XI Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura, organized in 2004 by CAP.

An architecture school celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing representative student work, but concerned with how readers often fail to acknowledge and ultimately disregard the relevance of student ideas, reducing them to mere image-making. Instead of listing projects by type or name, it was decided they would be presented in question format (bilingually), underlining the importance of inquiry over image. Question entries numbered from 1 to 100 (grouped by theme) predetermined the books format. Elegance (it is about architecture) and informality (but also about students) had to be...