Adolf Loos 1870-1933

Learn the standards of effective design and installation for building systems using the performance requirements set by the industry-leading source for standards: the International Code Council?. Now available in Spanish to recognize an increasingly diverse workforce, the 2003 International Building Code - Spanish Edition offers users comprehensive coverage and time-tested safety concepts so they are well-prepared for successful, safe work in the field. In addition, structural as well as fire- and life-safety provisions are also included and span a range of topics, including means of egress,...

This volume focusses on the mosaics and geometric designs from Ecija, the ancient Roman Astigi, the capital of the Conventus Astigitanus, which is one of four conventus iuridici that made the Roman Baetica. This work is part of a much larger study centered recently on the mosaics and the geometrical compositions of the Conventus Astgitanus, whose immediate objective pursued to cover the analysis of the musivaria of the whole of Baetica.In conjunction with the mosaics catalogue, this volume presents a catalogue of geometric designs, which are results of studies of different fields that make up ...

This catalogue of the work of the Barcelona architect Manuel Brullet (Mataró, Barcelona, 1941) covers the last tent years of his production.

Rafael Guastavino (1842 1908) nació en Valencia y estudió en Barcelona. Allí realizó sus primeras obras con un empleo extensivo de bóvedas tabicadas, que el consideraba un modo Acohesivo distinto de la construcción tradicional. En 1881 emigró América y fundó una empresa para la construcción de bóvedas tabicadas. Fue un exitó y participó en la construcción algunos de los edificios americanos más importantes. El presente volumen recoge la traducción al castellano de os dos libros que publicó en América: El ensayo sobre la construcción cohesiva de 1892 y la Función de la...