Concreto y efímero

El análisis integral y consciente de la protección y seguridad contra incendios especialmente en edificios, debe formar parte del proceso del proyecto, de la construcción y del mantenimiento de este. El profesional actuante debe adoptar decisiones concretas acerca de la seguridad ante la eventualidad de que se produzca un incendio, será necesario que identifique claramente y resuelva las necesidades específicas sobre: 1. Protección y seguridad de las personas. 2. Protección y Seguridad estructural. 3. Facilitar el acceso y la acción del personal del cuerpo de Bomberos. 4. Protección...

How much importance do we give to the settings in which we live, sleep and relax when we go travelling? Nowadays travel usually means spending time in hotels, and these establishments have set about specializing in order to satisfy the varied needs of their guests. In this book we have sought to open a window on today's highly innovative hotels by showcasing some particularly attractive examples from all over the world. All the hotels that we have gathered together are united by a quest for up-to-date design aimed at providing a welcome for business travelers or tourists.

As part of the celebration of the Symposium "Shell and Spatial Structures: New Materials and Technologies, New Designs and Innovations -- A Sustainable Approach to Architectural and Structural Design" of the International Association of Special Structures (IASS-SLTE) held October 23-31, 2008 in Acapulco, the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM developed 3 projects specifically for the occasion: 1) An exhibition of representative scale models of the "golden age" (1950-1975) of the construction of reinforced concrete shells in Mexico; 2) A documentary featuring the characteristics and evolution ...

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.