The advent of technical-scientific-informational environment has taken place after the Second World War and it is characterized by the use of modern technologies. In Brazil, the technical-scientific-informational environment ...

Este é um estudo sobre Piracicaba/SP, entre os anos de 1889 e 1930, período em que a cidade experimentou um processo de mudanças físicas e sociais conhecidas como “Belle Époque Caipira”. Tais mudanças decorreram do ...

In his 1996 article ―Enduring Substances, Trying Theories,Sidney Mintz returned to a theme that has been central to his work on the Caribbean, that of the region‘s fundamental and historically specific modernity. Discussing ...

According to Alvar Aalto, raising the quality of life did not lie in technical and economic capabilities but in the creative work of architects, whose “houses are built where people can lead happy lives,” and only reachable ...

In this document explains about the modernization program comprised three basic elements: 1) development of a strategic plan for IICA technical cooperation in Jamaica; 2) administrative modernization of the office; 3) ...

This article reviews the experience of modern architecture in direct relationship with wood as a material: from its power as a technical solution of the parts and their assembly as an expression, to the expressive capacity ...