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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,...

Arquitectura y magia es la investigación definitiva del profesor René Taylor sobre los misterios conceptuales que encierra El Escorial. Sostiene Taylor que Felipe II y Juan de Herrera eran hombres de su tiempo y, en consecuencia, abiertos a ciertas ideas de carácter arcano muy diseminadas entonces entre los individuos más cultos, ideas que posiblemente influyeron en el desarrollo de El Escorial. En las piedras, en los frescos y aun en la planta de este templo singular perviven, según Taylor, significados ocultos que sólo cabe descifrar con los criterios de quienes entendían la...

Es un libro sobre la obra de Antonio Gaudí con datos inéditos de algunos de sus edificios y su análisis según los cinco principios clave del construir arquitectónico, los cuales se sintetizan en la conveniencia estética, presidida en la obra de Gaudí por la idea de continuidad determinante de su radical originalidad arquitectónica.

It was in his home in Oak Park that Frank Lloyd Wright made his first contributions to the Modern movement. In 1889 he designed the first part of the house, in 1895 he added to it for his wife, Catherine, and their family, and in 1898 for his architectural practice. The entire building was a learning laboratory of modern architecture. While not a Prairie School house, it led to the development of the Prairie School. Wrights constant changes to this complex paralleled the evolution of his early architectural work and career. There, with his young assistants, he rethought the plan, spaces,...