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Brick Stone Metal Wood, 9781864708370
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Brick Stone Metal Wood offers a compelling illustrative journey, using a wide range of examples from across the world, of what can be achieved by using traditional materials in conjunction with modern materials to create a contemporary and modern structure.

Brick Stone Metal Wood

building on tradition

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2019

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Summary

The buildings of the past were constructed with readily available and local materials, such as stone, wood, or handmade bricks. Architects in the modern era, however, can choose from an ever increasing number of new materials, each one allowing for different advances in design. And yet the traditional materials have never been entirely supplanted; they still form an important part of the architectural range and are still used by architects the world over. The humble brick, for example, has re…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781864708370
ISBN-10:1864708379
Author:Carlos García Fernández, Begoña de Abajo Castrillo
Publisher:Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Imprint:Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:1 October 2019
Weight:1.37kg
Dimensions:280mm x 212mm
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Carlos García Fernández

RAW/deAbajoGarcia is an architecture office founded in 2013 in New York by Carlos Garcia Fernandez and Begona de Abajo Castrillo, though they are currently based in Madrid. Each holds a Master in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University where they both studied as Fulbright fellows. Carlos Garcia Fernandez holds a PhD in Architecture from the Madrid School of Architecture and has also studied at TU Delft in Holland. He has been fellow at the Spanish Academy in Rome and visiting researcher at Keio University in Tokyo, in the Sejima Laboratory. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Architectural Projects Department at ETSAM. Begona de Abajo Castrillo is the recipient of the National End of Studies Prize (Ministry of Education) and End of Studies Prize 2012 (UPM). She also studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and is currently developing her PhD as researcher in the Architectural Projects Department at ETSAM. She has worked with Alvaro Siza in Porto then became a member of the Foster and Partners Madrid team.

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