Arquitectura de la ciudad moderna

Desde las fortalezas, iglesias o palacios que con sus recios muros de piedra conchífera comformaron la ciudad colonial, hasta las últimas construcciones en hormigón armado, esta guía presenta una selección del urbanismo y arquitectura de La Habana: 252 ejemplos-plazas, paseos, conjuntos urbanos y edificios-descritos con fotografías, planos y reseñas textuales.

Learn the standards of effective design and installation for building systems using the performance requirements set by the industry-leading source for standards: the International Code Council?. Now available in Spanish to recognize an increasingly diverse workforce, the 2003 International Building Code - Spanish Edition offers users comprehensive coverage and time-tested safety concepts so they are well-prepared for successful, safe work in the field. In addition, structural as well as fire- and life-safety provisions are also included and span a range of topics, including means of egress,...

A compilation of texts by Professor Julio Arroyo previously presented in different academic meetings make up the present edition centered in public spaces in contemporary cities and the architecture that is concomitant, taking as a study reference the city of Santa Fe. Public spaces are a crucial category of urban life. However, in contemporary cities inconsistencies and contradictions prevail against the ethical postulates that define them -social cohesion, democratic inclusion, free expression, symbolic representation of citizen values- and the phenomena of what is public, dissociated in...

La biografía de un hombre universal. Una extraordinaria narración del auge, la decadencia y el colapso de la democracia ateniense. Publicada en 1940 y considerada una obra maestra, La vida privada y pública de Sócrates consagró a René Kraus como biógrafo de excepción. No es tarea fácil sumergir al lector moderno en la Atenas clásica desde la primera página y hacerle revivir, con impresionante realismo, los gloriosos días de la era de Pericles y los años dramáticos de las guerras del Peloponeso, la guerra civil y la decadencia. En medio de aquellos esplendores y tumultos se alza...