Arquitectura, forma y tecnología del hormigón.

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Arquitectura para la cultura II : salas de espectáculos.

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Superposiciones modernas = The Dilemma of 'Building on the Built' / by Gracia, Francisco de

Table of Contents: “…Museo Kolumba, Cologne (Germany) / Peter Zumthor -- Castillo de Astley, Warwickshire (England) / Witherford Watson Mann Architects -- Fundación Querini-Stampalia, Venecia, Venice (1961-1963) / Carlos Scarpa -- Museo de Arte Moderno, Stockholm / Rafael Moneo -- Neues Museum, Berlin (2009) / David Chipperfield -- Proyecto de rehabilitación del Monaterio Flor da Rosa, Crato / Camilo da Graça -- Castelo de São Jorge / Camilo da Graça -- Fundación Botín, Madrid / MVN Arquitectos -- Centro cultural Daoíz y Velarde, Madrid / Rafael de la Hoz -- FRAC, Dunkirk (France) / Lacaton & Vassal -- Convento de Sant Francesc, Santpedor (Barcelona) / David Closes -- Fond Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), Dunkirk (France) / Lacaton y Vassal -- National Maritime Museum, Helsingor / BIG.…”

The future of architecture, since 1889 / by Cohen, Jean-Louis, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Architecture's expanded field -- Shed to rails: the dominion of steel -- The search for modern form -- Domestic innovation and tectonic expression -- American rediscovered, tall and wide -- The challenge of the metropolis -- New production, new aesthetic -- In search of a language: from classicism to Cubism -- The Great War and its side effects -- Expressionism in Weimar Germany and the Netherlands -- Return to order in Paris -- Dada, De Stijl, and Mies: from subversiveness to elementarism -- Architectural education in turmoil -- Architecture and revolution in Russia -- The architecture of social reform -- Internationalization, its networks and spectacles -- Futurism and rationalism in Fascist Italy -- The spectrum of classicisms and traditionalisms -- North American modernities -- Functionalism and machine aesthetics -- Modern languages conquer the world -- COlonial experiences and new nationalism -- Architecture of a total war -- Tabula rasa to horror vacui: reconstruction and renaissance -- The fatal crisis of the modern movement and the alternatives -- Le Corbusier reinvented and reinterpreted -- The shape of American hegemony -- Repression and diffusion of modernism -- Toward new utopias -- Between elitism and populism: alternative architecture -- After 1968: architecture for the city -- The postmodern season -- From regionalism to critical internationalism -- The neo-futurist optimism of high tech -- Architecture's outer boundaries -- Vanishing points.…”
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