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For De Yturbe Arquitectos, the Mexico City-based architects, architecture is an opportunity to reunite simple pleasures, like light, air, view, colour, natural beauty, and simpleness. Over the years and full of ideas, they have always followed the premise less is more. The idea has been so marked in their theories, that they tended to open doors of minimalism.
Weekend houses, as opposed to urban architecture, take us back to the idea of warm spaces which dissolve the boundaries between interior and exterior, inviting rest, leisure and contact between man and nature.
Bioclimatic design for Tombazis means to understand a building as a living organism. Architecture in this approach is defined as a system in which the resources are being employed appropriately, creating a circuit not unlike the human body and its metabolism. The studio is based in Athens, Greece.
The states of Northern Mexico—Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur—have architecture, urbanism, and landscape design that offer numerous lessons in how to build well, but this constructed environment is largely undervalued or unknown. To make this architecture better known to a wide professional, academic, and public audience, this book presents the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico from the country’s emergence as a modern nation in 1821 to the present day. Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps...
XII Prophecies for XXI Century contains works by 12 renowned architects from around the world that will lead architecture into the 21st century.
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The Pekka Helin firm based in Helsinki restores some of the key features of traditional Finish architecture and relaunches them into modern-day society through the clever use of cutting-edge technology and respect for the environment. In the wide range of works this smoothly knit combination ultimately gives rise to elegant aesthetic guidelines which, at the same time, pay due respect to functions.
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Research laboratories and science education buildings are the heart of Harry Ellenzweig's practice.
Throughout his career, Gert Wingardh has always aimed to propose designs giving both historical and contemporary sensations, guided by a sociological methodology which puts people's usage of physical environment as a key of planning. During these years he has designed and produced a variety of projects, starting with interiors and private homes and following with a number of laboratory complexes, offices, and public buildings.