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Esta publicación propone entender la luz como la materia primordial de la construcción del espacio, para lo cual es necesario sintetizar los conceptos, las técnicas y las herramientas utilizadas para este fin. El texto busca que tanto los estudiantes de arquitectura como los profesionales experimentados comprendan las consideraciones y los procedimientos involucrados en el diseño de sistemas de iluminación natural y artificial, a partir de una perspectiva centrada en el uso eficiente de la luz y los dispositivos arquitectónicos que permiten controlarla. El texto y las ilustraciones...

Este libro reúne cuatro trabajos desarrollados por su autor, de modo independiente, entre 1974 y 1982: «Realidad e historia de la arquitectura»; «Las formas de la residencia»; «La ciudad como aventura del conocimiento», y «Arquitectura, naturaleza, historia».

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...