Citizens in retirement age are becoming an ever greater but also more active part of society. Along with this demographic and socio-cultural shift a new emphasis is placed on living ...

Playgrounds are places where children can slide, swing, jump, skate, climb and do all those things which their motor control development requires. Furthermore, the social skills which children acquire on ...

New spaces for new learning--not just in kindergartens, schools, and universities. How well we learn is directly linked to where we learn. In our digital age, an enormous amount of ...

For some time now, school buildings have represented an important field in architecture, and there is an enduring interest in the challenges this design task presents. This publication explains in ...

Esta exposición 'De las armas a las letras. Edificios universitarios que tuvieron uso militar' es un recorrido por los 12 espacios universitarios que tuvieron un uso militar. Está compuesta por ...

Libraries are no longer simply storage facilities for books. In the last decade they have expanded beyond their physical structures to become multimedia portals, through which entire communities gain access ...

For too long, kindergarten architects have been seemingly preoccupied with the principles of durability, maximisation of space, and minimisation of cost. This, however, also meant forgetting that these environments should ...

Entre 1928 y 1934 pasaron por la Residencia de Estudiantes para hablar de su trabajo algunos de los creadores que hoy reconocemos como maestros de la arquitectura moderna: Le Corbusier, ...

What will the library of the future look like? In an age in which information and communication are everywhere and the boundaries between producers and consumers of information are increasingly ...

For the past fourty years, our basic attitude has remained the same. On-site reportages from around the world have amassed a vast collection of architectural works. For this brand-new series ...

Designed by the architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, Central Los Angeles High School #9 for the Visual and Performing Arts has generated as much controversy as excitement, but there is no ...

The elementary and secondary school buildings and campuses built today are the schools of the future. Sustainable School Architecture is a guide to the planning, architecture, and design of schools ...

Followers of modern architecture will seize this opportunity to examine an important new building by master architect Max Dudler. The Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm Centre -- Germany's largest open-access library, ...

University buildings pose an interesting challenge for contemporary architecture. The seven liberal arts have long ago been joined by countless other faculties and departments. This branching out of knowledge requires ...

How can young children play an active role in developing the design of learning environments? What methods can be used to bring together childrens and practitioners views about their environment? ...

Schools crops up often in Hertzbergers prodigious oeuvre. They are his favourite buildings, he says. Hertzberger designs schools that are to function like cities. Schools and cities, he contends, can ...

The Calhoun School in New York, USA (FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS) FDE - Public School in Sao Paolo, Brazil (Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitectos) Bamboo School in Luong Son Village, Vietnam ...

Este libro presenta una amplia selección de soluciones imaginativas aplicadas al diseño de los parques infatiles, programas que conbinan las necesidades de los diferentes espacios de juego proporcionando entornos atractivos, ...

Derived from the Latin words axiom and forme, the American based office of Axi:Ome engages in architecture as research: a mode of practice that directly interfaces with social, cultural economic ...