This authentic reproduction of plans drawn up by a noted nineteenth-century architectural firm features both residential and public buildings. Hundreds of illustrations include floor plans, perspective views, and elevations as well as designs for staircases, fireplaces, and other interior details. Other drawings depict windows, doors, balconies, and gables. Photographs offer crisp views of exteriors. Victorian architecture buffs will prize this excellent...

Si quiere saber cómo puede hacer realidad sus proyectos desde su hogar, ha encontrado el manual adecuado. Compatible con la mayoría de impresoras 3D, el libro le ofrece los conocimientos y las técnicas básicas para sacar el máximo partido a esta herramienta. Gracias a los ejemplos reales y a los ejercicios prácticos propuestos por el autor, aprenderá todo sobre: - Armar y desarmar una impresora 3D, a la vez que revisar cada uno de sus componentes. -...

Este libro trata de cómo se reflejan las ideas y las realidades arquitectónicas sobre un plano gráfico. El dibujo de arquitectura se examina desde una perspectiva teórica, al tiempo que se ofrece un breve repaso histórico de sus ejemplos más significativos. Los arquitectos tienen tres formas de expresar sus ideas y de comunicarlas a los demás: el lenguaje natural, el lenguaje gráfico y el lenguaje arquitectónico. El primero corresponde a...

Architects Draw offers a practical and invaluable way to help students and would-be sketchers translate what they see onto the page, not as an imitation of reality, but as a comprehensive union of voids and solids, light and shadows, lines and shapes. For nearly forty years revered Cooper Union professor and artist Sue Gussow has taught aspiring architects of varying abilities how to fully observe and perceive the spaces that make up our physical...

Holl attempts to answer these questions with his idea for "Dense-Pack Villages," a type of courtyard housing that could be built with recycled concrete from fallen buildings and steel and would be hurricane- and earthquake-resistant. Each "village" could house approximately 200 occupants, and the courtyards would be filled with greenery and fruit trees. Holl proposes that these houses use solar cells on their roofs to provide electricity, allowing...

Creativity is the cognitive and meta-cognitive ability of men or women attempts to reshape the experience based on its observation, understanding and explanation of reality (Bermejo 2009). The greater this capacity cognitive and meta-cognitive, more likely to approach a reformulation successful experience. (Maturana 2011). It is divergent thinking in the search for conceptions and criteria alternatives that allow the development of more efficient...

Part of the generation of architects who were trained to draw both by hand and with digital tools, Nalina Moses recently returned to hand drawing. Finding it to be direct, pleasurable, and intuitive, she wondered whether other architects felt the same way. Single-Handedly is the result of this inquiry. An inspiring collection of 220 hand drawings by more than forty emerging architects and well-known practitioners from around the world, this book explores...

Esta obra es un recorrido por las edificaciones más representativas de la Universidad del Rosario, organizadas en tres grandes capítulos según las sedes en las que se encuentran y los periodos históricos en los que se construyeron. Además de las fotografías y reseñas que acompañan a cada edificación, los capítulos cuentan con un ensayo introductorio que explica al lector no especializado las principales características de los diferentes...

Ambiguous Spaces, the newest installment in the Pamphlet Architecture series and a return to Pamphlet's own progressive roots, features the architectural fictions "The Pregnant Island" and "Nuclear Breeding." These two projects develop alternative urban concepts that address the challenges presented by the specific situations and social dynamics described in controversial locations such as the Brazilian Tucurui Dam, the Three Gorges Dam in China,...

Esta obra presenta elementos para reflexionar sobre las nociones que permiten sentar las bases teóricas y filosóficas en la construcción de nuevas formas de pensamiento y explica cómo se detona una idea y cómo se trabaja hasta concluir su desarrollo en un proyecto arquitectónico, constrastando las teorías pedagógicas y artísticas con casos de estudio específicos en el ámbito universitario.