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Acompañemos a Martín Quezada a través de varios viajes por diferentes departamentos y regiones del Perú, adentrándonos en su folclore, creencias y formas de ver la vida, en estas narraciones el autor narra sus experiencias a detalle cuando tubo contacto con duendes, espíritus, demonios y otras entidades del orbe. en este primer libro de las narraciones de un iniciado llamado: "Historias de miedo peruanas" podrán conocer detalles de tales seres, donde aparecen y a que leyendas están sujetos. es un libro que habla de lugares mágicos y promete llevar al éxtasis emocional a todo lector amante de lo paranormal.

A Village and its Double offers a look at Dominique Perrault's experience as designer of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village. Part lecture book, part urban planning manual, the book explores the transformation of a neighborhood into an integral part of Greater Paris, offering a profound reflection on contemporary urban design. This book is perfectly anchored in French and international current affairs. The book explores the vision of renowned French architect Dominique Perrault, who designed an Olympic and Paralympic village at the crossroads of concerns such as legacy, site reversibility and the relationship with the existing territory. He discusses the history of Olympic villages in recent decades, explains the choice of the Paris site, its past, the process of Paris' bid for the 2024 Games, Dominique Perrault's guiding concept for the design of the village, and the project's 12 ambitions. It is a window through which Greater Paris takes shape... Richly illustrated with photographs, graphics and plans, this book is aimed at designers and the general public alike. Its publication, a few months before the start of the Games, amplifies its impact by exploiting current events.

This anthology is a critical reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The pages give space to a conversation that stretches far outside both the confines of the Soil Lab's site in North Lawndale and the short duration of the biennial. The book is a meeting place for the voices which contributed to the Soil Lab project, and maps their constellation of disciplines--across architecture, art, anthropology, ecology, craft and community work--and global geographies, including the US, Denmark, Ireland, Puerto Rico and Austria. The story of the project, and the many lives and threads that it brushed up against, is told through histories, criticism, photographic essays, instruction manuals, soil recipes and interviews.

Beginning in the Spring 2018 semester, the Yale School of Architecture Gallery launched a program to give students the opportunity to curate and stage exhibitions. The content is driven by student proposals and strives to be responsive to current interests and concerns in the school, while remaining open to the unique perspectives that stem from the breadth of our students backgrounds and outlooks. With the 2022-23 academic year, the North Gallery was able to return to a schedule of presenting three exhibitions per semester. This publication collects the six entries that graced our walls over that period.>Founded in 2018, the Yale School of Architecture North Gallery program gives students the opportunity to curate and stage exhibitions. The content is driven by student proposals and strives to be responsive to current interests and concerns in the school, while remaining open to the unique perspectives that stem from the breadth of our student's backgrounds and outlooks. This edition of the catalog contains six exhibitions from the 2022-23 academic year.

TdB Architects accredits extensive experience in the field of building and urban planning since 1992. TdB Architects' activity unfolds in three fields of work. The first in corporate architecture such as Headquarters such as Natura Bissé, Grifols Laboratories, Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, ESADE University on the Sant Cugat del Vallés Campus, or the Hotel Antiga Casa Buenavista. The second field is the rehabilitation where the Mandarín Oriental Hotel in Barcelona stands out, the reform of the modernist building Casa Burés, and the reform of the Baroque Palace "Palau Moxó". The third field is the residential architecture of multiple scales and volumes in a wide geographical extension.

Climate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites-from Venice flooding to extinction in the Galápagos Islands-have garnered empathetic attention in a media landscape that has otherwise failed to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis. In a strategic subversion of the media aura of heritage, DESIGN EARTH casts ten World Heritage sites as narrative figures to visualize pervasive climate risks-rising sea levels, extinction, droughts, air pollution, melting glaciers, material vulnerability, unchecked tourism, and the massive displacement of communities and cultural artifacts-all while situating the present emergency within the wreckages of other ends of world, replete with the salvages of extractivism, racism, and settler colonialism. The possibilities of such climate inheritances are narrated in drawing triotvchs and mythologies that bequeath other worlds and values. With Contributions of Lucia Allais, David Gissen, Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) has a clear commitment in compiling and presenting an overview of the projects it has carried out during the last 35 years. Therefore, it has edited and published a collection of books on completed public space works.This volume is the sixth one of the collection, with works from 2018 to 2022.>Overall, the volume displays 56 projects selected from the 265 actually built during the period.For each chapter, the journalist Anatxu Zabalbeascoa conducts an interview with two experts that give their points of view from inside and outside the metropolitan Administration. Two reflections from the architects in charge of AMB urban planning and public space complete the volume.

This book of three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture includes the projects of Chris T Cornelius focusing on "Decolonizing Indigenous Housing"; Abeer Seikaly "Conscious Skins" on materiality, making, and place; and Rodney Leon for a concept for a National Slavery Memorial in Washington, D.C. This book of three Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors at Yale School of Architecture includes the projects of Chris T. Cornelius focusing on "Decolonizing Indigenous Housing"; Abeer Seikaly "Conscious Skins"on materiality, making, and place; and Rodney Leon for a concept for a National Slavery Memorial in Washington, D.C. as a basis for redefining the memorial in general. The projects examined the larger cultural, political, and ideological issues on their sites with local communities and consciousness, materiality and craft, as ways to amplify inhabiting the land and the related social and spatial issues.

Barcelona offers a prime example of the co-housing model as an asset prized for its use value as opposed to investment. This book is a compilation of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, both complete and under construction. It explains how the co-housing process is managed in terms of architecture, urban planning, financing, legality, and taxation, and delves into the experience of living in a community fueled a cooperative spirit.>The content of the book presents designs for cooperative housing, accompanied by a critical vision of the model's implications in terms of the transfer of use or co-living. Finished and inhabited projects are compiled along with ongoing projects, to offer a general view of this way of living in Barcelona. The case studies are explained by members of cooperatives, experts and designers who look at aspects of design, sustainability, construction and urban life. This book is a tool for understanding the design and construction of co-housing and the community life that goes on there.

The book focuses on ways to reinvent public housing in New York Citythrough a series of design projects from Yale School of Architecture thatintegrate form and provide social programs for the residents.The students investigated the relationship between housing, equity, health, and community. The students developed comprehensive frameworks for theWashington Houses, three connected superblocks equivalent to seven NewYork City blocks. The concepts focused on restitching the project into the city street grid andsought ways to add new built fabric that would allow the Modernist towers-in-the park project to connect with public streets. Some found ways to keepthe superblock with interventions to support the community at differentscales and family structures. Urban farms and community facilities as well asrecreation spaces were included in order to have a range of interventions forcare, health, and equity that could reorient public housing.

What about Learning? focuses on how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can reimagine learning environments. This books focuses on "What about Learning?" a studio led by Deborah Saunt of DSDHA, in London in terms of how architectural education and learning at large faced ongoing disruptions and pressures under the COVID-19 pandemic. Disembodied learning and a renewed sense of civic participation, along with increasing awareness of how one's relationship with the environment is so critical to life at home, led the students to consider a twofold architectural question: What is the best site for learning today? What are the alternative forms of learning and exchange it could nurture? A collective analysis of YSoA's changing conditions, from its physical site to its virtual presence and networks, and parallel research into alternative learning models, such as University of the Underground and the London School of Architecture, served as a basis for critique and the making, and unmaking of curriculum in the students' studio projects. The design projects drew from lockdown and needs for different spatial potentials in sites of personal significance for learning. Talks from a symposium with invited guests from different fields--from activism to planning and pedagogy--addressed cross-disciplinary exchange about learning and the built environment and are also included.

"My name is Universe is a book of interviews with internationally renowned personalities through which some of the layers of knowledge included in the Periodic Table are revealed, recreated by Eugenia Balcells in the mural Homage to the Elements. Who would have thought that a work of art based on a scientific idea could explode like a veritable intellectual Big Bang and take us on a thrilling journey from atoms to galaxies through music, philosophy, art, cinema, chemistry, poetry, theater, dance, astrophysics, education, architecture, painting, quantum physics, religion or mathematics? My name is the universe is a book in which science, the arts and the humanities are intertwined, appealing to the transversality and unity of knowledge. A text that cultivates an attitude of wonder at the world around us, the engine of artistic and scientific creation, and that stimulates the reader's curiosity and creativity"--

Features design projects by students of the 15th Edward P. Bass Visiting Distinguished Architecture Fellowship studio held at the Yale School of Architecture and taught by Abby Hamlin (Bass fellow and founder of Hamlin Ventures), Dana Tang (architect and partner at Gluckman Tang Architects) and Andrei Harwell (Yale School of Architecture faculty member)--Page 11

This book collects the work of the MIAS studio over twenty years. Their projects cannot be explained only as finished works, but need an understanding of the design process: everything that happens before the cranes arrive. Based on four concepts, MIAS Universe explains the conceptual and constructive evolution of the studio's most emblematic projects through drawings, collages, engravings, sketches and models. Oneiric Spaces, Assemblage, Archive and Finishing are the concepts that articulate the work of MIAS and its trajectory since its foundation in 2000.>With Contributions of Peter Cook, Archigram Founder; Bob Sheil, Bartlett Director; and Josep Miàs, MIAS founder & director.

This book tells the story of the new funicular of Tibidabo Park: la Cuca de Llum (glow worm). The emblematic funicular has been rehabilitated several times since its installation in 1901, however, in 2020 it was decided to design a new funicular, which was to be sustainable, transparent, fast and accessible. The new funicular, designed by MIAS in collaboration with Leitner Ropeways, achieves maximum integration into the landscape by hiding its installations, and thus enables the best views of the city of Barcelona. This book shows not only the history of the park and its funicular, but also all the details of its innovative design and connection to the city.>With Contributions of Rosa Ortiz, PATSA Director, Martin Leitner, LEITNER ROPEWAYS director, and Josep Miàs, MIAS founder & director.

This edition of The ReView tries to communicate the pedagogical project and some of the lines of research of the Tulane School of Architecture (TuSA) through the work, mostly visual, of its students and professors. As in any educational project, the essential questions are "what for?" and "how?". The ReView: How and what for, presents the pedagogical project of the TuSA through the work, mostly visual, of both students and faculty over the past few years. The book is organized into two main blocks, "how" and "what for". On the one hand, "how" exposes the sequence of studies and theoretical courses with exceptional pedagogical methodologies. On the other hand, "what for" shows the connection of the TuSA's academic work with the social, economic, and environmental reality we face today. The conceptual link that connects the "How?" and the "What for?" is the idea of innovation. In a time of global crisis, the Architecture - and educational systems - needs to be revised. This revision of academic programs is crucial to educate new architects to address social and environmental challenges from an innovative perspective.

This book invites us to rethink architectural and urban models, prioritizing not so much the technical, formal and abstract knowledge sought by urban planners, as the public and civic dimension of citizens' experience when they try to care for themselves, for each other or for the environment. After decades of industrialization, our cities, in their physical and governmental dimensions, are productivity-oriented places. Cities are, nonetheless, a more hostile environment for non-productive activities: being able to choose where to sit and rest, use a public toilet, drink clean water without paying or breathe unpolluted air. The privilege that productive activities have enjoyed and those who exercise them has led to the denial of the various biological and subjective characteristics of its inhabitants and the multidimensional character of the city, becoming a cultural principle and a political practice. The Caring City opens up an extensive field of alternatives that can present a uniting vision of the economy, the environment and the health of a diverse community.

Sharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo. The book questions how "artifice" and the "social world" can be mutually and constructively integrated so that the contemporary urban space can be shared by all. A variety of innovative practices are presented by a diverse group of contributors including renowned scholars, architects, urbanists, and photographers from Japan and the US, and the research team at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.While the discourses and architectural works presented deal with the specificity of Tokyo, they were carefully selected to formulate together a collection of insights, new perspectives, and speculative experiments in urbanism and architecture that can also be used in other contexts.>With contributions by: Mustafa K. Abadan, Shin Aiba, Homi K. Bhabha, Kenta Hasegawa, Kozo Kadowaki, Hiroto Kobayashi, Masami Kobayashi, Japan Research Initiative Team at Harvard GSD, Jouji Kurumado, Seiji M. Lippit, Mitsuyoshi Miyazaki, Mayumi Mori, Mohsen Mostafavi, Jo Nagasaka, Erika Nakagawa, Don O'keefe, Yoshihiko Oshima, Kayoko Ota, Jordan Sand, Yoshihiko Sone, Tsubame Architects, Riken Yamamoto, Shun Yoshie

The Live Centre of Information: From Pompidou to Beaubourg (1969- 1971) unpacks the history behind one of the most iconic buildings of contemporary architecture. On July 19, 1971, Jean Prouvé presented the winning design of the future Centre Pompidou in Paris to an astonished audience. The project's architects, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Gianfranco Franchini, were considered "unknowns"; its sponsors, the engineers at Ove Arup & Partners, were simply forgotten; the project's idea of a "Live Centre of Information" was denigrated as a "metallic dam" in the heart of Paris; the jury was presumed to have been dominated by the charismatic Philip Johnson and the man who initiated the competition, President of the Republic Georges Pompidou, to have been forced to bend to the jury's will.Fifty years after those events, it is time to analyze these false certainties through the first chronological and documentary reconstruction of the genesis of the Centre Pompidou.

Urban Mix explores the devices and attitudes observable in urban crossroads of 8 major world cities. The diversity and complexity of crossings allow variable freedom of movement and define urban life, according to their cultural particularities. Mobility questions our ways of inhabiting the city. They are attached to multiple social approaches, constrained by the geography of the city and linked to the available energies. The frequentation of the city is mainly observed as a saturation or an animation and in an abstract and numerical way. But what is the nature of the movements in the cities, the daily life of more than half of the inhabitants of the planet? What are the speeds, rhythms, interactions, trajectories, specificities in an urban square?>Many data describes flows, but don't show the dynamics and the diversity of movements. This book focuses on 8 cases around the world and proposes to look at them at a human scale by drawing the paths of each moving element.Movement survey at 8 intersections in Old Delhi/Hauz Qasi Chowk in India, Copenhagen/Rådhuspladsen in Denmark, Tokyo/Shibuyacrossing in Japan, Hanoi/Place Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc in Vietnam, London/Oxford Circus inEngland, Lagos/ Ojuelegba and Alagbede-Igbobi Road and A1 in Nigeria, Sao Paulo/Av.Brigadeiro g Faria Lima and Av. President Juscelino Kubitschek in Brazil and Beijing/Chengfu and Zhongguancun E roads crossing in China

Tracé Bleu is a forward-looking approach that questions the ecological and social challenges facing our inhabited environments. Architecturestudio draws on its international experiences as an architect and urban designer to cross its approach with those of various multidisciplinary thinkers and experts. This book is a forward-looking approach that questions the ecological and social challenges facing our inhabited environments. Architecturestudio draws on its international experiences as architect and urban designer to cross its approach with those of various multidisciplinary thinkers and experts.>Starting from the given at a geoscale, how to anticipate the common good? How to create incentive projects for more virtuous and ecological behaviours? How an urban or architectural project becomes part of daily life? These are the questions that Architecturestudio addresses, using cross- experiences to examine the future of our practice.