Volumen 16 La Casa

La arquitectura ha estado vinculada al inestable concepto de arte, Volumen 9 desde Grecia hasta nuestros dias. Esta relacion ha impactado el entendimiento de como la arquitectura llega a ser, por un lado, algo creativo e innovador y, por otro, sola y pura construccion. Cuales son los criterios que hacen de una construccion un objeto de arte? Que elementos requiere la arquitectura para pertenecer al privilegiado campo del arte? En este libro se abordan estos temas, se comparan otras disciplinas artisticas con la arquitectura y se ahonda en las interrogantes que se plantean cuando la...

A detailed study that examines the architecture of Fernando Martínez Sanabria (b. Spain, lived and worked in Colombia since 1938- d. 1991) throughout one of his most recognized buildings: the building of the Caja Agraria (1965) located in Barranquilla. The author examines this commercial project from its initial design process and proposes an analytical view of the building through its anatomical construction systems of light and semi-darkness developed by architect Martínez Sanabria.

One of two most anticipated rooms of a house (the other is the master bathroom) is the kitchen. It's the interior space where most value can be added during a sale and the space that most homeowners wish to make the heart of the home. This book features over 100 contemporary kitchen designs to suit all sizes, shapes, and ages of house.

La catedral de Jaén, obra concebida en su conjunto por Andrés de Vandelvira, es una de las construcciones más representativas del renacimiento español, así como una muestra virtuosa del arte de la piedra, material exclusivo en el que se construyó. Este libro nos muestra la catedral en todas sus facetas, con un amplio despliegue fotográfico y la pluma experta de Pedro Galera, gran especialista del renacimiento en general y de la obra de Andrés de Vandelvira en particular.

Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation...