Tabla de Contenidos: “…Réfugio São Chico (São Francisco de Paula, Brazil) / Studio Paralelo. Montevideo (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) / Mecanoo architecten. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: Preface, p. 6 ; Introducing an Architecture of the Present: Critical Regionalism and the Design of Identity (Alexander Tzonis), p. 8 ; Critical Regionalism: A Facet of Modern Architecture since 1945 (Liane Lefaivre), p. 22 ; Projects, p. 56 ; Oscar Niemeyer (Dance Hall, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerals, Brazil 1942), p. 58 ; Richard Neutra (The Kaufmann Desert House, Palm Springs, Callfornia, USA 1946-47), p. 62 ; Alvar Aalto (Säynätsalo Town Hall, Säynätsalo, Finland 1948-52), p. 66 ; Dimitris Pikionis (Pathway up the Acropolis and the Philopappos Hill, Athens, Greece 1953-57), p. 70 ; Ricardo Porro (School of Plastic Arts, Havana, Cuba 1961-65), p. 74 ; Moshe Safdie (Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, Israel 1976-88), p. 78 ; Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia 1993-98), p. 82 ; Berger + Parkkinen ( The Nordic Embassies, Berlin, Germany 1995-99), p. 88 ; Jacques Ferrier and Jean-François Irissou (Siége Social de Toral énergie La Tour-de-Salvagny, Lyon, France 1998-99), p. 92 ; p. 102 ; Kengo Kuma (Hiroshige Ando Museum, Batoh, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan 1998-2000), p. 110 ; Leslie Elkins and James Turrell (Live Oak Friends Meeting Hall, Houston, Texas, USA 1995-2001), p. 116 ; MVRDV (Hageneiland, Ypenburg, The Netherlands 1997-2001), p. 120 ; Santiago Calatrava (Ysios Winery, Laguardia, Álava, Spain 1998-2001), p. 124 ; NavarraOfficeWalkArchitecture (Strin Park between Caltagirone and Piazza Armerina, Catania, Italy 2001), p. 128 ; foreign office architects (Yokohama International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan 1995-2002), p. 132 ; Gary Chang / Edge Design lnstitute Ltd (Suitcase House, Beijing, China 2001-02), p. 138 ; Ateliers Jean ouvel (Museum on Quai Branly, Paris, France, since 1999), p. 144 ; The Archltects, p. 151 ; Selected Bibliography, p. 154 ; Author Biographies, p. 157 ; lllustratlon Credits, p. 158.…”

“…Antonio Patriota, Ambassador to Rome, former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Foreign Minister of Brazil This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. …”

“…The second section deals with ""Well-Being and Quality of Working Life,"" emphasizing these topics for university professors in Brazil, as well as work-related well-being, psychological well-being of individuals as employees, physical and psychical well-being and stress, human work in organizations considering the discomfort perspective, and professional pride and dignity among social workers. …”

“…Its carefully selected case studies cover many geographical contexts, including the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia, Asia and Europe. Importantly, the volume presents the views of stakeholders that are typically left unaccounted for in the process of housing development, and presents them with an interdisciplinary audience of sociologists, planners and architects in mind. …”

“…Sport scientists from 25 countries already acknowledged their intention to present their study in the Conference this year: from, Germany, UK, Norway, Finland, Italy, Croatia, Spain, Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Greece, Iceland, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Portugal, China, Chile and others. Traditionally, the Conference offers the opportunity for colleagues to learn about the research results yielded by others and to launch or renew cooperation projects. …”

“…From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, the book takes as examples two constitutional realities, Germany and Brazil, in order to discuss the rationality, correctness, and legitimacy of constitutional decisions within this context. …”

“…By way of grappling with Empire's discursive field and charting new modes of producing meaning in opposition to that of Empire, the texts read from Brazil, Cabo Verde, East Timor, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe open new inquiries for Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies while contributing theoretical debates to the study of Lusophone cultures…”

“…Good diplomatic relations between Portugal, Brazil and the United States of America (USA) were decisive in attaining penicillin for our country. …”

“…A former communist prison island in the Adriatic Sea, now abandoned and overgrown with wild plants; the stone garden of a deaf Iranian peasant who dances ecstatically among his geological formations; a Belgian sculptor who combines wax and flesh to depict human and animal forms in states of half-manifestation, incompletion (missing limbs), or branching (morphing into other organisms); a cultural movement in Brazil that takes the discarded debris of urban centers and transforms their splintered wood pieces into massive labyrinths and underground caverns; a blacksmith poet in Afghanistan who alternates between tasks of hammering metal and writing lyrical verses amidst the smoke-clouds of his forge; a Cuban writer whose delirious fixation with the sea compels him to invent a language of pure untimeliness. …”