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Mallol is an architectural design center that functions under the lead of its director and promoter, Panamanian architect Ignacio Mallol Tamayo. This edition examines 25 year of professional operations of the largest architectural firm in Central America and illustrates, with more than 270 color images, representative examples of Latin American 21st century architecture, highlighting the firm's most representative buildings: Le Cube Mallol, one of the early designs (where Mallol plays with forms, space and symetry), a clear example of the type of large constructions that would later...

Dado que la obra arquitectónica debe ser concebida como un todo formal, funcional y técnico, la Estructura, tomada como una de esas partes indivisibles de la misma, debe considerarse desde el inicio de su concepción hasta su materialización. Se debe adquirir una cierta capacidad para poder comprender y relacionar las cargas aplicadas y los esfuerzos resultantes y, a partir de esto, diseñar la estructura óptima. Además, es preciso reconocer que, el conocimiento, la intuición, el razonamiento y la creatividad son ingredientes básicos del proceso de diseño estructural. Es por ello que...

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.