The book offers a profound exploration of the connections between earth and cosmos, emphasizing themes of breath, existence, and thought. It serves as a guide for new thinkers, travelers, and philosophers seeking to understand their place in the universe. Celebrated poet Juan Felipe Herrera praises it for its insightful perspective and depth, suggesting it is a valuable resource for those on a journey of intellectual and spiritual discovery.
The Truth About the Barn offers answers to important questions about how barns came into being, why they look the way they do, why they're worth reflecting on, and what possible future they may have. Chapters investigate the barn's place in culture and religion, art and literature. Psychological and philosophical implications are explored. Readers are treated to an occasional recollection or account of the author's own experiences with barns.
This textbook offers an introductory course to structural mechanics for architects, including problems and solutions. It follows a completely different approach to structural mechanics than the structural mechanics books for engineering schools, making it much more attractive for architecture students and practitioners. It also offers a different point of view for engineering students, as it provides them with a more intuitive understanding of structural mechanics and the models therein.Instead of studying the classical theory of linear elasticity and then particularize it to simple structures, this book analyzes structures in a historic and also typological order. The books starts with cable structures and stone arches, followed by trusses and, finally, frame structures made of beams. For every typology, the latest, state-of-the-art theory in the field is introduced in a very didactic way.