This is a book about the interpretation of architectural forms in modern literature. One of its claims is that literature’s encounter with the built environment is essential to its de‹nition of what is sometimes called ...

The opposition between the terms carcasse (carcass), conceptualized by Auguste Perret, and ossature (frame), proposed as an alternative by Le Corbusier, gives rise to the exploration of the capital contribution of the ...

The article proposes to delve deeper in the idea of space in Le Corbusier’s Toward an Architecture (1923), focalizing in its connections with the past and urban design. When in his book Le Corbusier presents his “trois ...

Legacy Systems have become a challenge for many enterprises, which have been migrating its legacy systems towards new computational environments because of interoperability issues with modern technologies, high maintenance ...