Libros de la editorial ACTAR

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  • (UN)PRECEDENTED PYONGYANG

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    ACTAR (2017)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-35-2
    • EAN: 9781940291352
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.35,00 €

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    Despite the notorious fact of it being one of the most veiled countries in modern history, North Korea recently has started to get engaged with the rest of the world, and now we can easily ...

  • SUPER GREEN!

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    ACTAR (2017)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-53-6
    • EAN: 9781940291536
    • Páginas: 200
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.25,00 €

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    SOUPERgreen! features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to 'green' architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the ...

  • XXL-XS: NEW DIRECTIONS ON ECOLOGICAL DESIGN

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    ACTAR (2017)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-87-1
    • EAN: 9781940291871
    • Páginas: 224
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.33,00 €

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    Architecture must not only be functionally green, but its formal, conceptual and physical properties also need to constitute a novel and integrated living material system, one that can flourish within the larger world around it. ...

  • A TOOLBOX FOR EXUMA, THE BAHAMAS: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, DESIGN, AND PLANNING

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    ACTAR (2017)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-945150-13-5
    • EAN: 9781945150135
    • Páginas: 100
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.45,00 €

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    The Toolbox for Exuma presents an approach to environmental management, design, and planning rooted in fieldwork and engagement. The Toolbox includes a number of unfolding pamphlets which can be displayed as posters or read as ...

  • IS THE WORLD URBAN? TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF GEOSPATIAL IDEOLOGY

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    ACTAR (2017)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-93-2
    • EAN: 9781940291932
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.34,00 €

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    Building upon theories of planetary urbanization, this book evaluates the limits and potentials of remotely sensed data and other forms of geospatial information as a basis for mapping and understanding urbanization processes under modern capitalism. ...

  • WHAT IS ENERGY AND HOW WE MIGHT THINK ABOUT IT?

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    ACTAR (2017)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-45-1
    • EAN: 9781940291451
    • Páginas: 192
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.27,00 €

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    Energy and design are currently imprisoned within a narrow framework of commonplaces, moral mediocrity, and outright error. Yet the platitudes that ensue from it continue to claim the attention of both the discipline and the ...

  • THE CHINA LAB GUIDE TO MEGABLOCK URBANISMS

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    ACTAR (2017)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-16-1
    • EAN: 9781940291161
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.40,00 €

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    A wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large-scale development that are shaping China's urban future.
    Superblocks are the basic unit of China's urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with ...

  • CAZA: 2011-2015

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-692-24999-4
    • EAN: 9780692249994
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.36,00 €

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    CAZA: 2011-15, the inaugural monograph of the Brooklyn-based design studio CAZA, celebrates the first five years of the firm, and includes photographs, drawings, building descriptions, essays, and conversations that relate to CAZA's global architecture and ...

  • FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES: EA774 AT CERN

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-85-7
    • EAN: 9781940291857
    • Páginas: 132
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.20,00 €

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    The book talks about the design and construction of the building 774 at CERN. The building 774 is a unique building both for its architectural value and for its location. Located in front of of ...

  • ARCHITECTURE AND WASTE: A (RE)PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-945150-05-0
    • EAN: 9781945150050
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.42,00 €

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    Architecture and design currently play a minor role in the design and construction of industrial building types, especially waste-to-energy facilities. Through comparing the well-established waste-to-energy industries in Sweden with less established engagements in the northeast ...

  • POSSIBLE MEDIUMS

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-96-3
    • EAN: 9781940291963
    • Páginas: 200
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.35,00 €

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    The Possible Mediums book will present a diverse collection of texts, drawings, and images from invited contributors. Five chapters - Histories, Figures, Objects, Parts, and Projections - group together contributors with related interests and frame ...

  • ARCHITECTURE IS ALL OVER

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-42-0
    • EAN: 9781940291420
    • Páginas: 296
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.35,00 €

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    From the comprehensive scale of the city to the small scale of the installation, Architecture Is All Over responds to the field's dichotomous conditions of monumentality and invisibility. Structured as an unfolding spectrum that ranges ...

  • EMPIRE, STATE & BUILDING

    MOE, KIEL

    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-84-0
    • EAN: 9781940291840
    • Páginas: 233
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.30,00 €

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    This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building's material basis reveal much about ...

  • THIRD COAST ATLAS "PRELUDE TO A PLAN"

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-91-8
    • EAN: 9781940291918
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.48,00 €

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    Measuring over 10,000 miles, the Great Lakes coastline, known as the 'third coast,' is longer than the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of the United States combined. It is difficult to overstate the history and future ...

  • MCHAP BOOK ONE "THE AMERICAS"

    GALLANTI, FABRIZIO

    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-945150-01-2
    • EAN: 9781945150012
    • Páginas: 560
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.40,00 €

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    MCHAP: The Americas brings together leading architects and academics in a dialogue exploring the current state of architecture throughout the Americas and analyzes themes raised by the seven finalist projects (designed by Herzog & de ...

  • THE GENERIC SUBLIME

    NAJLE, CIRO

    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-75-8
    • EAN: 9781940291758
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.42,00 €

    Disponible en 10 ó 15 días

    Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, high-rise housing, mixed-use developments, luxury condominiums, airport hubs, suburban office enclaves, industrial and technology parks, hotel complexes and resorts, conference and financial centers, entertainment venues, gated communities, theme parks, branded cities, ...

  • VERTICAL URBAN FACTORY

    RAPPAPORT, NINA

    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-940291-63-5
    • EAN: 9781940291635
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.59,00 €

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    The book demonstrates how entrepreneurial, hybrid spaces and cleaner and greener factories can reintegrate manufacturing into city life as new paradigms for urban industry that will prove more sustainable, self-sufficient, and socially equitable workplaces. Vertical ...

  • RE-LIVING THE CITY "UABB 2015 CATALOGUE"

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-945150-03-6
    • EAN: 9781945150036
    • Páginas: 656
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.45,00 €

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    This richly illustrated book presents the exhibits and curatorial visions of the 2015 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (UABB), organized around the theme, Re-Living the City. It highlights the contributions of dozens of international ...

  • TREACHEROUS TRANSPARENCIES "THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS TRIGGERED BY A VISIT TO FARNSWORTH HOUSE"

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    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-945150-11-1
    • EAN: 9781945150111
    • Páginas: 96
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.22,00 €

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    This book looks at a few important works by selected artists and architects for whom transparency is an artistic strategy, which they implement primarily with glass and mirrors but with other media as well. The ...

  • FACTS "JOSEP LLUÍS MATEO"

    MATEO, JOSEP LLUIS

    ACTAR (2016)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-945150-15-9
    • EAN: 9781945150159
    • Páginas: 196
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.30,00 €

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    Presenting architectural works at the time when they have been done is a critical
    question to understand, by specific practices, trends into our contemporarity. This
    book presents a full description of the projects by reelaborated ...