Texto en portugues. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. UIRA is the architectural design for na orbital Olympic Villlage, the first of the world, created by the Brazilian architect Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. In 2011 Pimenta launched the architectural design of Kairos - for a building orbiting planet Earth, considered the first design of architecture for a building in outer space. Yet in 2011, Emanuel Pimenta created and directed the first course of space architecture in Brazil, and the second in the world, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo. In early 1980s, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept of virtual architecture, and starting in 1980 he designed the first virtual planet of the world - Woiksed - anticipating Second Life in more than twenty years. The book UIRA contains the first studies of the project, about sixty illustrations and an introduction written by the architect Bruno Padovano, from the University of Sao Paulo.
