Tipologías arquitectónicas coloniales y republicanas

The Design of the home continues to be of great interest to both architects and designers. How to configure a living space according to the characteristics of a site and the specification of the client is still the starting point of any house project. However, the final solutions can be as diverse as they can be interesting. This publication takes a specific look at the way architecture will evolve when regarding inhabitations around the world due to climatic changes and different cultural expectations.

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

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...

Esta obra en tres tomos tiene dos grandes campos de contenidos: Herramientas y Fundamentos. Las herramientas son llamadas así acertadamente, puesto que los lectores y lectoras se encontrarán con un importante compendio de instrumentos prácticos para "usar" en el proceso creativo del proyecto arquitectónico o diseño industrial de artefactos. Instrumentos que son propuestos y provistos por el autor para lograr alta calidad en la comunicación visual de los productos, portadores de mensajes visuales hacia sus usuarios directos. Aunque los fundamentos son tan importantes como las...