Gaudi executed most of his works in Barcelona, and his buildings had a decisive influence on the city's urban landscape. On the other hand, the city molded his oeuvre, for it must be remembered that a
Determining the authorship and originality of artistic works is essential for fully enjoying art, and for the correct functioning of the market and many cultural centres. It is one of the tasks fallin
This book contributes to important questions in modern representation theory of finite groups. On the one hand, it introduces and develops the abstract setting of the Frobenius categories (also called
This is an informative and insightful account of the architecture of the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona. The Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona was the first public institution in Barcelona set up t
GSD 08 Platform attempts to formulate prevalent tendencies and coherences among the many that currently operate within the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Its content groupings are the site of rel
Originally published in Spanish and here made available in English translation, this book will interest an exceptionally wide audience of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners involved with Musli
This book examines the origins and evolution of investment treaty law and practice, the law applicable to investment treaty disputes, and the substantive investment law issues of standards of treatmen
The Genetic Code and the Origin of Life celebrates the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix. This book combines two complementary approaches to address the question of the development
A collection of essays by Josep Lluis Mateo, one of Europe's most influential architectural intellectuals, most of which published here in English for the first time. Text in Spanish.
A collection of texts by Eugenio Barba reconstructing the history of his relationships with the Asian classical theatres. Interweaving stories of journeys, meetings, anecdotes, reflections and technic
Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building’s experiential reality during construction, one ought to keep in mind their brute powers – ea
This book presents the singular configurations associatedwith a robot mechanism, together with robust methods for their computation,interpretation, and avoidance path planning. Having such methods is
The scope of this book is Operations Research methods in Agriculture and a thorough discussion of derived applications in the Agri-food industry. The book summarizes current research and practice in t
This book introduces the reader to two of the main directions of one-dimensional dynamics. The first has its roots in the Sharkovskii theorem, which describes the possible sets of periods of all perio
This textbook for a one-semester course in Digital Systems Design describes the basic methods used to develop “traditional” Digital Systems, based on the use of logic gates and flip flops, as well as
Part of the Architectural Papers series, The Middle East explores the architecture of a nearly paradoxical region. Both the cradle of culture, where much remains of thousands of years of human society
Architectural Papers is a series of books published by Josep Lluis Mateo of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Established in 2005, the series covers a wide range of topics related to t
A five-year-long cooperation between historians from all over Europe, this collection offers the first in-depth analysis of the various ways to write and to conceptualise history beyond the nation-sta
