Luz Materia

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 A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

Javier Senosiain¹s architecture is always a discovery and, undoubtedly, a surprise that causes intrigue and certain restlessness; it is full of questions particularly for those of us who were formed on the functional rational school where, it should be said, he was formed with us. The questions are accumulated when opening this book of his work as it happened when reading his book of bioarchitecture. In the integral and modern Mexican architecture society, these unusual gestures are not so frequent and, since the appearance of the above mentioned works, a growing surprise has accompanied the ...

Con esta obra se pretende abordar, de modo técnico, por qué es necesaria la conservación de la naturaleza, como herramienta que contribuye al desarrollo de la sostenibilidad.

Edificios Sostenibles II amplía el contenido de su predecesor y, al igual que aquel, es un libro en parte didáctico y en parte denuncia, pero que por encima de todo, lo que principalmente pretende ser es una guía para la reconciliación con la naturaleza y con el planeta, transformando los edificios en elementos de mitigación del cambio climático con el fin de compensar el daño producido al medio ambiente, paliar sus consecuencias y que pasen de ser uno de los principales protagonistas del calentamiento global a uno de sus más enérgicos detractores. El libro consta de seis partes...