Umberto Riva

"Architecture & Design Australia" is a new survey of Australian Architecture that takes an expansive look at over 50 builings, from private dwellings to public monuments, and includes many award-winning projects that have helped shape the energetic state of Australian design today. It is fair to say that the diversity of the Australian continent shapes the complexity of its architecture, and it is these ingredients that continue to set the scene for the country's exciting architectural language. An index with contact information of the featured architects and designers is enclosed.

Vicente Galicia (b. Spain 1901, arrived in Colombia in 1926- d. Barranquilla 1992) was a Basque architect and Claretian missionary-priest who left behind an important architectural legacy in Colombia, particularly in the Department of Choc and the cities of Barranquilla and Medellín. Architect and urban historian González Escobar presents a brief biography highlighting the architectural accomplishments of this celebrated architect-constructer who created his most prominent works between 1942 and 1945.

¿Qué pasó en las ciudades en la Sociedad del Conocimiento en la que fuimos entrando gradualmente? ¿Qué temores existían hace más de tres décadas, y cuáles se cumplieron? ¿Qué expectativas se formulaban? ¿Fueron satisfechas? ¿Qué nuevas tendencias no previstas fueron surgiendo a lo largo de estos años? Este libro fue escrito para tratar de responder a estos interrogantes. "I-Polis" se divide en cuatro partes. La primera, "Avances tecnológicos y transformaciones urbanas", reúne dos capítulos que tratan sobre los puntos históricos de inflexión de las tecnologías que...

Hospitals and health centers are a unique category of architecture with clearly defined characteristics. Health architecture must offer imaginative, constructive responses and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special and flexible solutions to the problems raised by this special type of facility: planning, budgets and space as well as the idiosyncrasies arising from each particular field of health. New Health Facilities presents the best examples of health architecture constructed in recent years and each of the architects demonstrates a solid understanding of the need to...