nuevas adquisiciones bibliotecas

Mayo-Junio 2012

encargado de adquisiciones: Sandro Maino

NOTA: el listado de adquisiciones (2008-2012) del DA

disponibles en la Biblioteca Central se encuentra en el

Centro de Documentaciones Angela Schweitzer.

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GROAT, Linda; WANG, David Architectural research method

A practical guide to research-just for architects From searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to effectively address the technical, aesthetic, and behavioral issues that arise in their work. This book's unique coverage of research methods is specifically targeted to help professional designers and researchers better conduct and understand research. Part I explores basic research issues and concepts, and includes chapters on relating theory to method and design to research. Part II gives a comprehensive treatment of specific strategies for investigating built forms. In all, the book covers seven types of research, including historical, qualitative, correlational, experimental, simulation and modeling, logical argumentation, and case study and mixed methods. Complete with real-life examples of how good research can be used from project inception to completion, Architectural Research Methods is an essential reference for architecture students and researchers as well as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and building product manufacturers.

HAY, Iain (ed.) Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography

Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography is a practical, in-depth guide to understanding and conducting qualitative research in human geography. Reflecting both established and modern methods, and written by some of the most authoritative voices in the discipline, the text teaches students how to plan, execute, interpret, and effectively communicate qualitative research. Organized into three parts (introducing, doing, and interpreting), the new third edition is a comprehensive, engaging resource for both students and new researchers in the field. Part 1: Introducing Qualitative Research in Human Geography 1. Qualitative Research and Its Place in Human Geography 2. Power, Subjectivity, and Ethics in Qualitative Research 3. Cross-cultural Research: Ethics, Methods, and Relationships 4. Qualitative Research Design and Rigour 5. Case Studies in Qualitative Research Part 2: 'Doing' Qualitative Research in Human Geography 6. Interviewing 7. Oral History and Human Geography 8. Focusing on the Focus Group 9. Historical Research and Archival Sources, Michael Roche 10. Using Questionnaires in Qualitative Human Geography 11. Doing Foucauldian Discourse Analysis - Revealing Social Identities 12. Seeing with Clarity: Undertaking Observational Research 13. Participatory Action Research Part 3: 'Interpreting and Communicating' the Results of Qualitative Research in Human Geography 14. Coding Qualitative Data 15. Computers, Qualitative Data, and Geographic Research 16. Writing a Compelling Research Proposal 17. Writing Qualitative Geographies, Constructing Geographical Knowledges 18. From Personal to Public: Communicating Qualitative Research for Public Consumption

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DEMING, Elen M.; SWAFFIELD, Simon

Landscape Architectural Research: Inquiry, Strategy, Design

A practical, single-source guide tosuccessful strategies for landscape architecture research As the scope of landscape architecture expands to engage with other disciplines, and streams of information directing this field continue to grow and diversify, it becomes increasingly important for landscape architects to be able to implement a range of effective research strategies when seeking, creating, and validating knowledge. Landscape Architecture Research offers a framework for advancing better design thinking solutions by supplying readers with a system of inquiry tactics that open up a wider range of research possibilities. With a logical and innovative approach that favors legitimacy of knowledge based on collective, grounded practices, rather than strict adherence to protocols drawn only from scientific models, this comprehensive, illustrated guide produces a sound argument for establishing a new paradigm for legitimizing research quality. Landscape Architecture Research presents:

• Case studies that show how the range of presented research strategies have been successfully used in practice

• New perspective on the relationship between theory, research, practice, and critique, a relationship that is specific to landscape architecture

• Detailed coverage of the ways that new knowledge is produced through research activities and practical innovations in landscape architecture

The first and only book on this topic of growing importance in landscape architecture, Landscape Architecture Research keeps professionals and students in step with the latest developments in landscape architecture, and delivers a dynamic and flexible game plan for verifying the integrity of their work.

CAPPELLI, Lucas Self-fab House

El Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Cataluña investiga proyectos globales para el desarrollo sostenible en la vanguardia de las viviendas autosuficientes orientadas a solucionar necesidades medioambientales, económicas y sociales. Estos proyectos investigan técnicas y procesos de construcción para edificar viviendas con medios locales, desde la aplicación inteligente de técnicas tradicionales hasta la fabricación y los procesos digitales más avanzados. Este volumen constituye una fascinante recopilación de los proyectos más innovadores de viviendas aisladas y edificios residenciales, proponiendo los proyectos y construcciones más creativos mediante el uso de nuevos materiales y sistemas energéticos, así como la integración de la arquitectura en el paisaje.

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TEMPLE, Nicholas; BANDYOPADHYAY, Soumyen

Thinking Practice: Reflections on Architectural Research and Building Work

In the rapidly changing climate of the architectural profession, Thinking Practice presents an extraordinary examination of the increasingly dynamic relationships between academic research, teaching and practice. This book brings together a unique and diverse collection of writings by leading academics and theorists who are also practicing architects. Edited by Professor Nicolas Temple (Head of Architecture at University of Lincoln) and Dr Soumyen Bandyopadhyay (Liverpool School of Architecture), the book consists of ten essays under the headings: Reflective Practice; Cultural Geographies; and Dewelling, Gesture and Perception. Each contributor

AAVV Total Housing

Total Housing is a demonstration of the virtues of high and medium density multi-family homes, and an antidote to urban sprawl. The selection of works in Total Housing (in hard copy and on its supplementary website: www.actar.com/totalhousing/) spans a period coinciding with the height of the housing boom, and consequent bust, experienced in most “developed” economies in the first decade of the 21st century. From among the vast built production of this period, Total Housing selects 61 projects from 22 countries that exemplify outstanding innovations in construction systems, spatial organization, models of unit aggregation, and integration of the residential program into the complex of functions that make up our cities. This book is a design manual as much as a reference for future good practices. Its structure follows a simple sequential order of the number of homes included in each project, revealing that interesting design solutions are found in big and small projects alike. The book also contains detailed plans of 17 of the featured projects.

LAPUERTA, Jose Maria de Manual de vivienda colectiva

Dietmar Eberle (de Baumshlager&Eberle), Wiel Arets, Frits Van Dongen (de Architecten Cie), Felix Claus (de Claus&Kaan) y Jacob Van Rijs (de MVRDV), Juan Herreros (de Ábalos&Herreros) y Pepe Morales se han “encerrado” en un taller durante una semana y ayudados por un profesor asistente español, con un grupo de 35 arquitectos de distintas nacionalidades. Nos hablan, en las páginas de éste libro, de vivienda colectiva, pero más de cómo enseñar a hacerla. Cada capítulo se ilustra con un proyecto inédito o poco conocido de cada “maestro”, con otras imágenes aportadas por él y con resultados que los arquitectos-alumnos tuvieron en su taller. Cada taller ha contado con invitados ilustres; Anne Lacaton (de Lacaton&Vassal), Kees Christiaanse, Jan Neutelings, han participado, inspirado o corregido durante los mismos.

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GAUSA, Manuel Open: arquitectura y ciudad contemporánea

Este trabajo defiende la emergencia de una nueva lógica arquitectónica, de concepción espacio-temporal, subyacente en la propia cultura contemporánea y acorde con un territorio compartido de búsqueda que podría reconocerse en toda una serie de experiencias, decisivas en los últimos quince años, relacionadas con lo que podríamos denominar ?lógicas de la complejidad?. Se trata de un mapa del proyecto y de la ciudad contemporáneos desde la capacidad de enlace entre sistemas dinámicos y estructuras irregulares.

BAHAMÓN, Alejandro PALAFITO de arquitectura vernácula a contemporánea

Construir sobre el agua puede parecer una idea revolucionaria, compleja técnicamente y que remite a imágenes futuristas de sofisticadas estructuras anfibias. Sin embargo, estamos hablando de una de las tipologías de arquitectura vernácula más antiguas y que más se ha extendido en nuestro planeta: el palafito. Se trata de una construcción sobre el agua, levantada sobre pilotes, y que abarca un amplio espectro de composiciones, desde viviendas individuales hasta complejos asentamientos de unidades interconectadas. Su origen es tan remoto como la propia historia de la humanidad y su presencia se halla tan extendida que se encuentran comunidades palafíticas en diversos rincones de los cinco continentes. Este libro plantea una doble visión: por una parte, una mirada analítica y sintética sobre la evolución de esta tipología en su estado vernáculo para luego, en una segunda parte, adentrarse en el imaginario de arquitectos y diseñadores contemporáneos que se han inspirado en esta arquitectura sobre zancos al de proyectar sus edificios.

PEVSNER, Nikolaus A History Of Building Types

Available again in paperback, this first survey of building types ever written remains an essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West. Here Nikolaus Pevsner shares his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye with readers curious about the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. He describes twenty types of buildings ranging from the most monumental to the least, from the most ideal to the most utilitarian. More than seven hundred illustrations illuminate the text. Both Europe and America have been covered with examples chosen largely from the nineteenth century, the crucial period for diversification. Included are national monuments, libraries, theaters, hospitals, prisons, factories, hotels, and many other public buildings; churches and private dwellings have been excluded for practical reasons. The author is concerned not only with the evolution of each type in response to social and architectural change, but also with differing attitudes toward function, materials, and style.

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KOOLHAAS, Rem Grandeza, o el problema de la talla

Una primera versión de este texto apareció publicada en la revista italiana Domus, en octubre de 1994, y más tarde se publicaría como parte integrante del libro de Rem Koolhaas y Bruce Mau S, M, X, XL (1995). No obstante, la teoría acerca de 'la grandeza' había recibido ya distintas formulaciones desde que escribiera Delirio de Nueva York, sobre todo a partir de 1989, cuando el estudio OMA abordó tres grandes concursos 'la terminal marítima de Zeebrugge, la Bibliothèque de France y el centro ZKM de Karlsruhe', proyectos que ensayaban los principios teóricos de 'la grandeza': autonomía de cada una de las partes del edificio, potencial liberador del ascensor e independencia entre el exterior y el interior.

WOLF D. PRIX, Coop Himmelblau no es ningún color

Himmelblau no es ningún color presenta por primera vez en castellano una selección de textos escritos por Wolf D. Prix en el contexto de su trabajo desarrollado en el despacho Coop Himmelb[l]au entre 1968 y 2005. La selección, realizada por Thomas Kramer, se ha basado en la edición alemana de los textos completos y recoge escritos programáticos, aforismos, entrevistas, conferencias y otros textos relacionados con proyectos propios o sobre colegas de la disciplina. El conjunto nos ofrece una perspectiva de los aspectos teóricos y artísticos que han marcado el trabajo arquitectónico del equipo vienés, y no sólo permite entender cuáles son las bases conceptuales de su obra, sino también poner de relieve algunas de las preocupaciones que han marcado la trayectoria de Coop Himmelb[l]au, como la importancia del espacio público en la ciudad o la difícil relación de la arquitectura con el poder económico. Los textos, en definitiva, reflejan una voluntad no acomodaticia respecto a la estética y una visión tremendamente crítica respecto a la ciudad y las condiciones de producción contemporáneas vinculadas al mero rendimiento económico.

WINCHIP, Susan M. Fundamentals of Lighting, 2nd Edition

Fundamentals of Lighting , 2nd Edition is written for college students who are studying lighting in their quests to become interior designers. Taking an integrative approach, the text not only includes lighting system basics, but also demonstrates how lighting relates to the design process, human factors, sustainability, global issues, regulations, business practices and the LEED building certification program.

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RUSSELL, Sage The architecture of light

The Architecture of Light makes lighting design approachable. This vivid, image packed text of lighting concepts and techniques serves as the perfect companion for lighting design students and professionals alike. Built around a successful teaching curriculum, this text provides a logical step by step progression through the phases of conceptualizing, refining, drafting and presenting lighting design. Written by a practicing professional lighting designer who is also an award winning design instructor, The Architecture of Light presents a perfect blend of visual design tools and fundamental lighting knowledge. In addition to theory and discussion, The Architecture of Light also provides complete chapters of common lighting details, case studies and a catalog of specific lighting tools. Every architect, interior designer and design student deserves a working knowledge of lighting design and this single book makes it possible.

LENK, Ron; LENK, Carol Practical Lighting Design with LEDs

This book covers all of the information needed to design LEDs into end-products. It is a practical guide, primarily explaining how things are done by practicing engineers. Equations are used only for practical calculations, and are kept to the level of high-school algebra. There are numerous drawings and schematics showing how things such as measurements are actually made, and showing curcuits that actually work. There are practical notes and examples embedded in the text that give pointers and how-to guides on many of the book's topics. After reading each chapter of the book, readers will have the knowledge to implement practical designs. This book will be kept as a reference tool for years to come.

GORDON, Gary Interior Lighting

The inspired illumination of any given space can amplify its aesthetic impact and take it from the pedestrian to the sublime. And, for years, this excellent reference has guided architects and designers in the achievement of lighting artistry. Enhanced with more than one hundred new illustrations, Interior Lighting for Designers, 4th Edition takes readers step-by-step through the lighting design process as it covers lighting terminology, perception, general design strategies, and much more. Revised to address recent advances in lighting technology and practice, this edition also covers new equipment as well as revised specifications for existing equipment. Color photos of various design applications beautifully illustrate project concepts. Little wonder that this work has been identified as one of the "key preparation references" for design professionals facing their Lighting Certified examination.

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KARLEN, Mark; BENYA, James Lighting design basics

The essential book of lighting for professional designers, now updated and revised Providing the fundamental information new designers need to succeed in a concise, highly visual format, the Second Edition of Lighting Design Basics presents realistic goals that can be used as a guide to create simple yet impressive lighting designs and when collaborating with professional designers on more complex projects. Drawing on real-world case studies— from kitchens to doctors' offices—the book is packed with attractive, helpful illustrations, making it an invaluable resource for students, as well as interior designers and architects studying for professional licensing exams.

• Authored by leading lighting designers with decades of experience

• Offers straightforward coverage of lighting concepts and techniques

• Contains design scenarios for more than twenty different types of spaces

Lighting is a basic, yet difficult-to-master element of interior design. Lightning Design Basics changes that, putting the power to create in the hands of the designer.

DAVIS, Mike Planeta de ciudades miseria

Según la ONU, más de mil millones de personas viven en ciudades miseria del Sur global. En este ambicioso, mordaz y brillante libro, Mike Davis explora el futuro de una desigualdad radical y una inestabilidad del mundo urbano a punto de explosionar. Para ello, el autor traza una trayectoria global del asentamiento informal desde los «barrios de la esperanza» en la década de los sesenta y el «big bang» de la pobreza urbana durante las décadas de la deuda de los años setenta y ochenta, hasta las megaciudades pobres como Cono Sur, Sadr City y las Cap Flats. Desde la expansión de barricadas en Lima hasta las montañas de basura en Manila, la urbanización se ha separado de la industrialización e incluso del crecimiento económico. El autor realiza una cuantificación de la aterradora producción en masa de la miseria que caracteriza a las ciudades contemporáneas. Con una fría indignación, Davis argumenta que el crecimiento exponencial de las ciudades miseria no es accidental sino que es el resultado de una conjunción simultánea de la corrupción de las clases dirigentes, del fracaso institucional y de la acción del FMI y de los Programas de Ajuste Estructural (SAP), dirigidos a transferir la riqueza de pobres a ricos. Azote del sistema neoliberal, Davis desacredita el irresponsable mito de la salvación por uno mismo mostrando exactamente quién es expulsado del «capitalismo autosuficiente». Como en el trabajo de Jacob Riss, Ida Tarbell y Lincoln Steffans hace más de un siglo, esta crítica incisiva expone de modo apremiante la vergüenza de nuestra ciudades. Planeta de ciudades miseria concluye con una provocativa reflexión sobre la «guerra contra el terrorismo» como una incipiente guerra mundial entre el imperio norteamericano y los nuevos pobres de las ciudades miseria.

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MATEO, Josep Lluís; SAUTER, Florian Natural Metaphor. An anthology of essays on architecture and nature

Nos encontramos frente una nueva realidad que podría simplemente describirse como la Era Global. Las identidades corporativas internacionales están surgiendo en todas partes del mundo y usan la arquitectura como un icono para promocionar sus marcas; el internet ha cambiado nuestros hábitos de trabajo y nuestra forma de comunicarse. Los artículos de esta publicación describen este estado de conciencia global. Como forma de investigación, reúne una multiplicidad de enfoques legítimos, que toman en cuenta las dimensiones específicas de la problemática. La 'naturaleza' ha proporcionado en varias formas una poética potencial para estimular como una metáfora el proceso de diseño. Desde lo formal o conceptual hasta los compromisos geométricos en escalas diferentes, la variedad de correlaciones posibles es tan insondable como la imaginación humana. En vez de abogar por una doctrina parcial y dogmática, el objetivo de la publicación es presentar un panorama de opiniones diversas y complementarias.

BARASCH, Moshe Teorías del arte. De Platón a Winckelman

Centrándose en la pintura y la escultura, Moshe Barasch analiza en esta obra las principales tendencias de la teoría del arte en Europa desde la Grecia antigua hasta comienzos del siglo XVIII, demostrando que los diversos conceptos de cultura y escultura que cristalizaron en este siglo deben examinarse dentro de un marco conceptual diferente del que corresponde al estudio de períodos anteriores.

ISOZAKI, Arata Arata Isozaki

Arata Isozaki’s (b.1931) work blends an Eastern architectural style with emerging global trends, and his theories have been important in bringing Western architecture to Japan This book presents the most comprehensive selection available of his built and unbuilt projects from the beginning of his career to the present day, and is extensively illustrated with drawings, silkscreens, sketches and models from the Isozaki Office Archive. Each chapter features introductory essays by Ken Tadashi Oshima and theoretical texts by Isozaki, most of them published here for the first time

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BLUNDELL-JONES, Peter Hans Scharoun

Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) was the most significant German architectural Modernist of the 1920's, staying in the country during the Third Reich to re-emerge during the 1950's. Achieving recognition with his controversial house for the Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung in 1927, his experiments with free planning and dynamic interior space continued throughout the wartime years. Post-war he emerged with a consolidated architectural philosophy exemplified by the Philarmonie concert hall in Berlin (1956-63) which remains the most sucessful 20th century model for this building type. This monographic overview of Scharoun's life and work explores his theoretical stance in relation to his contemporaries.

LAGANIER, Vincent; VAN DER POL, Jasmine

Light and Emotions: Exploring Lighting Cultures. Conversations with Lighting Designers

In addition to its practical functions, such as helping to optimize safety and security, lighting also has another principal task creating emotions. Light and color can be used to achieve the most varied and astonishing effects. These effects are dependent on the project and spatial environment, but they also depend in large measure on cultural context. This study is based on forty-seven interviews with leading lighting designers from North and South America, Europe, and Asia. For the first time, it explores in a systematic fashion what aesthetic, emotional,and atmospheric tasks a good lighting design can accomplish. The international diversity of the interviewed designers makes for surprising insights. Universal constants are pointed out, but so are the remarkable differences in reception and effect that are occasioned by different societies and cultures. It is imperative, then, for professional lighting designers and architects to familiarize themselves with these lighting cultures, and this book offers an informative and stimulating opportunity to do so.

HERTZBERGER, Herman Herman Hertzberger: Articulations

In a career spanning 40 years, Herman Hertzberger has focused on creating livable, workable spaces that not only make innovative use of otherwise banal urban landscapes, but also encourage their occupants to recreate these structures to fit their needs. This volume is a comprehensive monograph of this Dutch architect. The work provides a sampling of his buildings and projects, as well as writings and sketches from his notebooks. From schools and housing projects to offices and theatres, Hertzberger's concern for individuality, utility and sustainability in architecture have earned him an enthusiastic following especially among those interested in urban renewal. In words and pictures, this volume offers a glimpse of Hertzberger's ideals and creative process, the problems he encounters, and his solutions.

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MUTTONI, Aurelio The Art of Structures

This book describes the complete panorama of supporting structures and their function by describing how loads are sustained and transmitted to the ground. With a minimum of mathematics, the reader is guided through the analysis of some of the world’s most famous designs and structures from a civil engineering perspective. An intuitive approach is taken – the basics of equilibrium analysis are explained by visualizing the internal forces of specific structures with the aid of simple graphical tools. Ideal for anyone who needs an intuitive and practical approach to the design and appropriate sizing of load-bearing structures.

GEORGES, Nicolas

Concevoir et construire une bibliothèque : Du projet à la réalisation

L'outil incontournable pour réussir votre projet dans le respect des règles et usages Comment construire une médiathèque aujourd'hui dans un contexte où tout a changé, les publics, les outils de consultation, l'univers de la documentation, la conception des équipements et des services publics, la gestion des territoires ? Plus conviviales, plus ouvertes sur la ville, les bibliothèques deviennent flexibles, pour s'adapter aux nouveaux usages et aux exigences réglementaires d’accessibilité à tous et de développement durable. Concevoir et construire une bibliothèque rassemble les recommandations techniques indispensables à la conception et à la programmation de la construction et de l'équipement des bibliothèques municipales et des bibliothèques départementales de prêt, petites et grandes, dans le cadre de projets de création, rénovation, modernisation et extension. Organisé selon les étapes d'élaboration du projet de bibliothèque, l'ouvrage permet : - de comprendre et maîtriser le déroulement d'une opération de construction ; - de connaître le rôle de chacun des acteurs du projet et les différents stades de leur intervention ; - de concevoir son propre projet à l'aide des outils, des exemples et des pistes de réflexion proposés ; - de suivre pas à pas la méthodologie de mise en oeuvre de l'opération, de la définition du projet culturel à l'aménagement intérieur de la bibliothèque ; - d'organiser les travaux et suivre le chantier. Enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et fiches pratiques, ce guide fournit des exemples de réalisations très récentes, avec des plans, coupes et photos en couleur. Outil d'aide à la programmation et à la conception, cet ouvrage est destiné avant tout aux chefs de projet, directeurs d'établissement et bibliothécaires, mais aussi aux élus locaux et services techniques des collectivités territoriales qui participent à l'élaboration d'un projet de médiathèque. Les programmistes et les architectes y trouveront tous les détails nécessaires à la réalisation d'une bibliothèque. Sous la direction du Service du livre et de la lecture, cet ouvrage collectif a pour auteurs une vingtaine de bibliothécaires, programmistes, architectes et professionnels des collectivités ayant construit des bibliothèques.

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FRASCARI, Marco

Eleven exercises in the art of architectural drawing. Slow-food for the architect's imagination

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture. Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing drawings and for drawing constructing thoughts. This is an indispensable reference text and an effective textbook for students seeking to advance their appreciation of the nature and exercise of architectural drawings. Preface 1. Architectural Iconoclasm 2. The Cosmopoiesis of Architectural Drawings 3. Festina Lente 4. Drawings as Loci for Thought 5. The Pregnancy of Drawings 6. Nullo die sine linea 7. Architectural Consciousness 8. Architectural Brouillons: Work Intended to be Recopied 9. Cosmopoiesis and Elegant Drawings 10. Traces and Architecture 11. Tools for Architectural Thinking 12. Disegnare Designare 13. The Light of Drawing Imagination 14. Cosmopoiesis and World-Making. Postface

HALL, Peter; ABRAMS, Janet Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as the agendas driving them: social networks are mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite. Illustrated with nearly 300 images, from archival woodcuts to Web-based maps and GPS drawings, ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING explores how cartographic techniques are being adapted to map the emerging landscapes of electronic communication. It showcases cutting-edge projects in graphic and industrial design, art, architecture, and technology by an international roster of writers, artists, and designers at the forefront of locative media practice. ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING proposes—by visual example and written analysis—that mapping is a fundamental design process that increasingly shapes the physical and conceptual dimensions of contemporary society.

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ALLEN, Stan

Practice - Architecture, Technique and Representation: Revised and Expanded

Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. Drawing on his own experience as a working architect, he examines the ways in which the tools available to the architect affect the design and production of buildings. This second edition includes revised essays together with previously unpublished work. Allen’s seminal piece on Field Conditions is included in this reworked, revised and redesigned volume. A compelling read for student and practitioner alike.

WHEELER, Stephen M.; BEATLEY, Timothy Sustainable Urban Development Reader

Building on the success of its first edition, the second edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader expands its selection of classic material on sustainable community development. As in the previous edition, it begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before presenting classic readings on a number of dimensions of the sustainability concept. Topics covered include land use and urban design, transportation, ecological planning and restoration, energy and materials use, economic development, social and environmental justice, and green architecture and building. All sections have a concise editorial introduction that places the selection in context and suggests further reading. Additional sections cover tools for sustainable development, sustainable development internationally, visions of sustainable community and case studies from around the world. The book also includes educational exercises for individuals, university classes, or community groups, and an extensive list of recommended readings. The anthology remains unique in presenting a broad array of classic readings in this field, each with a concise introduction placing it within the context of this evolving discourse. It includes updated material on:

• global warming • issues in less developed countries • ecotourism • prospects for sustainable development in

China • megacities • case studies of sustainable development.

The Sustainable Urban Development Reader presents an authoritative overview of the field using original sources in a highly readable format for university classes in urban studies, environmental studies, the social sciences, and related fields. It also makes a wide range of sustainable urban planning-related material available to the public in a clear and accessible way, forming an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the future of urban environments.

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BUSQUETS, Joan Cities : X lines : Approaches to City and Open Territory Design

Cities: 10 Lines - A New Lens for the Urbanistic Project is the outcome of extensive research conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the methods and tools with which designers currently shape cities and open territories. Over the past three decades, new techniques in working the built environment have been deployed in multiple settings, interacting with a wide array of cultures, scales, and intensities. The book documents the most significant, worldwide case studies of each approach and traces back to precedents and references, establishing a theoretical framework and critical assessment of each line of work. Furthermore, Cities: 10 Lines serves as an additional initiative to develop a stronger potential for unprecedented forms of urbanity.

GONZÁLEZ MORENO-NAVARRO, José Luis; CASALS BALAGUÉ, Albert

Gaudí y la razón constructiva. un legado inagotable

Es un libro que tiene por objeto aumentar el conocimiento científico de la obra de Antonio Gaudí mediante dos aportaciones originales: 1) la exposición de los datos obtenidos en los trabajos de investigación en la Iglesia de la Colonia Güell, el Palacio Güell y la Casa de los Botines; y 2) la utilización del método de análisis basado en las teorías contenidas en "Claves del Construir Arquitectónico", de los mismos autores, que permite el estudio de los edificios mencionados, a los que se añade el templo de la Sagrada Familia, desde cinco principios: espacio, ambiente, integridad, producción y conveniencia estética. Este último aspecto, clave de la síntesis arquitectónica, se basa en la hipótesis de una idea de 'continuidad' gaudiniana que impregnaría toda su obra, llegando a conformar su radical originalidad arquitectónica.

RINKE, Mario Before Steel: The Introduction of Structural Iron and Its Consequences

An original and absorbing cross disciplinary look at the many-layered connections between architecture and engineering in the 19th century, this book will captivate anyone interested in how the style of the modern city evolved when iron became the primary building material used. Extensively illustrated with photos and schematics, this book takes the reader into the massive social transformation and increased industrialization of Europe through the 1800s, showing how the new, formable building materials re-defined architecture. Fundamental technology euphoria in the widespread belief in progress, as well as the development and application of new materials, opened up a great number of forms which often recalled classicism or the Romanesque. An amazing journey into the mindset of the late Industrial Revolution.

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SCHMIDT, Maik Arduino: A Quick Start Guide (Quick-Start Guides)

With this Quick-Start Guide you'll be creating your first gadgets within a few minutes, following the step-by-step instructions and photos throughout the book. You'll build your own motion-sensing game controller with a three-axis accelerometer, connect the Arduino to the Internet and program both client and server applications, and create a universal remote with an Arduino and a few cheap parts. Plus, you'll build your own burglar alarm that emails you whenever someone's moving in your living room, integrate Nintendo's Wii Nunchuk into your projects, make binary dice, learn how to solder, and more. Sidebars throughout the book point you to exciting real-world projects using the Arduino, plenty of exercises will extend your skills, and "What If It Doesn't Work" sections help you troubleshoot common problems. With Arduino: A Quick-Start Guide, beginners can quickly join the worldwide community of hobbyists and professionals who use the Arduino to prototype and develop fun, useful inventions.

CRISPIANI, Alejandro Objetos para transformar el mundo

En el mundo del siglo XX, poblado como nunca antes por artefactos técnicos y obras que aspiran al estatus de arte, diversas corrientes modernistas quisieron poner en circulación otra familia de objetos, que no pudieran ser catalogados ni como técnica ni como arte y que tuvieran como primera razón de ser la modificación radical de lo existente. El invencionismo argentino fue una de esas corrientes. Nacido a mediados de los años cuarenta, pese a su corta existencia incubó las líneas importantes del arte argentino, como Madí, el Arte Concreto-Intervención y el Perceptismo. Alejandro Crispiani nos presenta aquí un estudio que parte del invencionismo para reconstruir la trayectoria de su impulso radical en dos direcciones, la que lleva a la arquitectura y la que lleva al diseño industrial, y en ambos casos en un territorio distinto de aquel en que se originó, el Chile de las décadas de 1950 a 1970. Así, este libro traza por primera vez las relaciones entre el arte invencionista argentino, la Escuela de Arquitectura de Valparaíso (promotora de algunas de las más osadas iniciativas de vanguardia de la región) y las experiencias del Grupo de Diseño liderado por Gui Bonsiepe (una inmersión del diseño industrial europeo de avanzada en la realidad social y política latinoamericana plena de consecuencias); dos experiencias, estas últimas, que pasaron por un momento particularmente álgido en lo relativo a su naturaleza y aún a su propia existencia a comienzos de los años 1970, cerrando el ciclo modernizador iniciado en la posguerra. Objetos para transformar el mundo, combina la historia de la arquitectura y el diseño, la historia del arte y la historia intelectual para poner luz en el entretejido de intenciones estéticas ambiciones filosóficas y aspiraciones políticas que constituyó la propia matriz de este fascinante episodio de contactos culturales y viajes de ideas y personas a uno y otro lado de la cordillera.

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SNOEHETTA AS (ed.) Snoehetta Works

Snoehetta is a leading team of architects in Norway with offices in Oslo and New York. This first-ever publication to document their work presents and illustrates the most important current and completed projects of these architects, who have been active internationally for fifteen years, and contains texts by various authors. Projects include the Library of Alexandria (2002), the New Opera House in Oslo (2008), and the Gateway Project in Ras Al-Khaimah, Dubai. Snoehetta’s works and projects revolve around a collaboration and interchange between various disciplines. The architects attach great importance to connecting architecture with landscape architecture and interior design. In each of their projects, fundamental aspects of site, landscape, and context are freshly observed and discussed, which enables them to discover and develop a constant stream of new and varied solutions. As part of their effort to interweave multiple disciplines, the architects of Snoehetta always involve locally and internationally well-known artists in their important projects. For Snoehetta, working together with artists from the early conceptual phase of a project onward constitutes an important factor for later stages of the process.

DAN, O. S. & IGOE, T Physical computing: sensing and controlling the physical world with computers

Physical computing is all around us-from interactive displays at museums to "puff sensors" that aid the physically challenged. With a multiple book buying audience, this book doesn't require a specific background or technical experience. It is designed to help make a more interesting connection between the physical world and the computer world. The audience size is comparable to that of the Robot builder market. In addition to this audience, physical computing is also taught at several universities across the US. This book is a great source of information and knowledge for anyone interested in bridging the gap between the physical and the virtual.

DÍAZ ALARCÓN, Rodrigo Cobquecura, alma forjada en piedra

En este libro, el arquitecto ha incluido la recopilación de antecedentes históricos, arquitectónicos, constructivos y del paisaje que realizó en esa localidad en 1983. En la publicación, mediante escritos a pluma y dibujos a mano, describe el carácter de Cobquecura. Se detiene en su geografía, en el paisaje de este pueblo patrimonial con sus calles tan singulares, las viejas casonas con jardines y patios interiores; sus construcciones en que se mezcla la piedra laja oriunda del lugar con las tierras de colores que sirven y se utilizan para pintar las fachadas de las casas. Su peculiar geografía. Todas las singularidades que motivaron que Cobquecura fuera declarada como Zona Típica hace algunos años. Todo aquello que destacó, resaltó y puso en valor el arquitecto experto en patrimonio, Carlos Inostroza.

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BANZI, Massimo Getting Started with Arduino

Arduino is the open-source electronics prototyping platform that’s taken the design and hobbyist world by storm. This thorough introduction, updated for Arduino 1.0, gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you work with them right away. From getting organized to putting the final touches on your prototype, all the information you need is here! Inside, you’ll learn about:

• Interaction design and physical computing • The Arduino hardware and software

development environment • Basics of electricity and electronics • Prototyping on a solderless breadboard • Drawing a schematic diagram

Getting started with Arduino is a snap. To use the introductory examples in this guide, all you need an Arduino Uno or earlier model, along with USB A-B cable and an LED. The easy-to-use Arduino development environment is free to download. Join hundreds of thousands of hobbyists who have discovered this incredible (and educational) platform. Written by the co-founder of the Arduino project, Getting Started with Arduino gets you in on all the fun!

JONES, Willn (ed) Architects' sketchbooks

Drawing by hand is making a big comeback. Tired of ubiquitous slick computer renderings that look the same the world over, architects are rediscovering the importance of this very basic, immediate medium: seeing the world and recasting it through their imagination and visual and manual skill. The resurgence of drawing is not merely a retrograde trend, but an affirmation of the continued importance of sketching as part of the design process. Architects' Sketchbooks is the first survey to present pages from the private sketchbooks of a wide international spectrum of architects, who use drawing to express their spatial ideas while revealing their unique thought processes. Sketches from some 85 architects and studios are featured, including Will Alsop, Architects Atelier Ryo Abe, Shigeru Ban, Elemental, Thom Faulders, Norman Foster, Carlos Jiménez, Alessandro Mendini and Office dA. Their works range from simple line drawings and clear perspectives to more abstract, artistic compositions, from quick freehand to measured mapping, from spontaneous squiggles on scrap paper to careful drawings on art paper. Accompanying texts by editor Will Jones include comments by the architects and profile how they use sketches to help evolve their initial inspirations and concepts into more developed ideas, revealing the artistry behind the built world.