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Digital And Parametric Architecture explores the development of the latest digital tools including advance modeling software and computer aided design in the production of architecture. It is a journey through the most fascinating projects, digitally designed and fabricated, during the second decade of the 21st century. The book highlights the use of these technologies to explore tectonic operations such as sectioning, folding, contouring, and tessellating. A wide variety of projects that range in scale and location offer an insight into the architecture of the future.
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Un joven astronauta a punto de salir en una misión a Plutón, tiene un sueño en el que ve como la Tierra con sus habitantes mueren por causas desconocidas. En este sueño se encuentra con una deportista de élite. Más tarde la buscará y juntos emprenderán una aventura para salvar la Tierra.
Este libro presenta una panorámica de las obras arquitectónicas mexicanas más relevantes de los primeros cuatro años del nuevo siglo. La selección recoge múltiples arquitecturas complejas y heterogéneas, e incorpora a las nuevas generaciones reflejando un horizonte que trasciende los confines capitalinos. Cincuenta obras se ordenan según su tamaño mediante una amalgama de autores tipologías y lugares. Concepto, pragmatismo y forma se unen para mostrar pabellones desmontables, casas de distintos tamaños y sabores; edificios corporativos y de departamentos (a la holandesa, neodéco y minimalistas); museos, embajadas, escuelas y agencias de automóviles, diseñados por arquitectos tan diversos como Teodoro González de León y Francisco Serrano, Legorreta+Legorreta, López Baz y Calleja, TEN Arquitectura, y Alberto Kalach y sus discípulos. También se encuentran propuestas previamente publicadas en Arquine.
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The New York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team. It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That’s what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it Has to Work is unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read. We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply ...
Reimagining National Belonging is the first sustained critical examination of post–civil war El Salvador. It describes how one nation, after an extended and divisive conflict, took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. In tracing state-led efforts to promote the concepts of national culture, history, and identity, Robin DeLugan highlights the sites and practices—as well as the complexities—of nation-building in the twenty-first century. Examining events that unfolded between 1992 and 2011, DeLugan both illustrates the idiosyncrasies of state and society in El Salvador and opens a larger portal into conditions of constructing a state...
The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Orthography -- Introduction -- 1 Image and Text -- 2 Pictorial and Textual Sources -- 3 Mesoamerican Cosmogony -- 4 The Maiden -- 5 The Grandmother -- 6 The Sun's Opponents -- 7 The Sun -- 8 The Perfect Youth -- 9 The Father -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z