Cabaña

94.000 caracteres 105 fotos a color 25 fotos en b/n 20 ilustraciones 85 planos arquitectónicos. Construir sobre el agua puede parecer una idea revolucionaria, compleja técnicamente y que remite a imágenes futuristas de sofisticadas estructuras anfibias. Sin embargo, estamos hablando de una de las tipologías de arquitectura vernácula más antiguas y que más se ha extendido en nuestro planeta el palafito. Se trata de una construcción sobre el agua, levantada sobre pilotes, y que abarca un amplio espectro de composiciones, desde viviendas individuales hasta complejos asentamientos de...

Whether we live in a house in the country or in a city home, a terrace is an increasingly cherished luxury that opens living space out to the exterior and creates more direct contact with nature. Spectacular and of varied design, some are on the roofs, some are fitted with a solarium, while others boast a garden. Over the course of 136 pages and with more than 140 spectacular photos in colour, Terrace Design offers a complete selection of terraces set in the country, by the sea and in the city. An original compilation that will inspire a new terrace or refurbishment and that offers valuable...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

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.

José Luis Romero nos ofrece en este libro la oportunidad de hacer un viaje por los vericuetos de un mundo complejo y fascinante: la Edad Media. El libro se divide en dos partes: la sociopolítica, con sus clasificaciones de temprana Edad Media, alta Edad Media y baja Edad Media, y la cultural, en la que se estudian la imagen del universo, las formas de convivencia y la idea del hombre.

Whether we live in a house in the country or in a city home, a terrace is an increasingly cherished luxury that opens living space out to the exterior and creates more direct contact with nature. Spectacular and of varied design, some are on the roofs, some are fitted with a solarium, while others boast a garden. Over the course of 136 pages and with more than 140 spectacular photos in colour, Terrace Design offers a complete selection of terraces set in the country, by the sea and in the city. An original compilation that will inspire a new terrace or refurbishment and that offers valuable...