It is understood that Mies van der Rohe is one of the most important architects of the Modern movement. But how do Mies ideas on architecture and on the logic ...

"Yes, concrete can be cold and imposing - but as the structures in the book attest, it can also be colourful, playful, and delicate." ?Wall Street Journal In this new, ...

Plywood is an astonishingly versatile material, made by gluing together layers of cross-grained veneers, creating a pliable board that can be stronger than solid wood. Stylish and practical, plywood offers ...

The 21st century will face a radical paradigm change in how we produce construction materials - a shift towards cultivating, breeding, raising, farming, or growing future resources. The book presents ...

Wood is a fresh, insightful and surprising look at the world's best timber architecture. With 170 structures from the last 1,000 years, Wood features projects from some of the world's ...

Jose Mª Sánchez García, Iñaki Alday, Margarita Jover, David Closes, Gonzalo Byrne, Barbas Lopes Arquitectos Si construir es inventar, al rehabilitar tomamos el pasado como soporte para la invención. Los ...

Providing architects, designers, acousticians, engineers, students and creative professionals with a visual encyclopedia of sound-absorbing materials, this book is categorised according to application. Each material includes a full-page profile with ...

Ornament and Identity is the successor of the well-received At Work, a publication by renowned Rotterdam based architecture firm Neutelings Riedijk. In their new book they convincingly demonstrate that buildings ...

Advanced materials refers to newly developed material with better performance than traditional materials. Things like "power-generating and breathing" membrane structure, "self-cleaning" carbon fiber structure and "energy-saving" photovoltaic panel have been ...

"The development of architectural materials has lasted for thousands of years. On one hand, we are always looking for materials and expressive techniques of historical and local background; on the ...

Architectural research by the two Geneva architects in their office Bassicarella focuses on a few fundamental themes: Materiality, presence, construction, pre-fabrication and the internal figure. In a sequence of volumes ...

Single-handedly - literally, without heavy machinery or cranes- the sculptor Hermann Rosa constructed studio spaces as accessible large-scale sculptures made of exposed concrete. On the one hand, they are open ...

Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular theme in architectural practice and education. In the context of a discipline ...

When describing a proposal to send the worlds first 3D-printed satellite into space by 2020, scientists from the European Space Agency pointed out that composite materials are now predominant in ...

Materials and their finishes lend buildings and interiors their distinctive characters. Yet, which criteria persuade architects to use or not use a particular material? How do they find the right ...

Le ultime frontiere della ricerca sul cemento in relazione ai brevetti, alle prestazioni del materiale, alle opere realizzate.arquitectura Il cemento è materia progettata e come tale in continuo divenire. Il ...

Actualmente el soporte informático es imprescindible y de uso cotidiano para el profesional del sector de la edificación. Como consecuencia de ello, algunas normas, como la Norma española de hormigón ...

Handbook on brick typology with many drawings and photos on recent examples of brick architecture in the Netherlands since 1990 and texts by specialists. Graphic Design by Joost Grootens.BOOK ARCHITECTURAL

El ladrillo es uno de los materiales de construcción más antiguos y su historia se remonta a los orígenes de la civilización. El ladrillo de barro o adobe se inventó ...