WILLIAM J.R. CURTIS

Desde su publicación en 1982, La Arquitectura Moderna desde 1900 se ha convertido en un clásico contemporáneo. Con un alcance mundial, combina una clara línea temporal con un certero análisis e interpretacion. Los desarrollos tecnicos, economicos, sociales e intelectuales se suceden en una amena narracion que permite un detallado analisis de los edificios. A lo largo del libro el autor se centra en los arquitectos y en las caracteristicas que hacen a los edificios imperecederos.Para esta tercera edicion, el texto ha sido revisado y ampliado, incorporando nuevo material y una fresca apreciacion de las identidades regionales. Siete capitulos son totalmente nuevos y desarrollan ejemplos de arquitectura reciente.Descrito por James Ackerman de la Universidad de Harvard como el mejor trabajo publicado en este campo este libro nos presenta un penetrante analisis de la tradicion moderna y sus origenes, explorando la interaccion creativa entre lo antiguo y lo nuevo que ha generado la increible riqueza de las formas arquitectonicas del mundo durante el siglo XX.

"Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms es el estudio definitivo sobre el arquitecto maestro modernista suizo francés Le Corbusier realizado por el experto y premiado historiador de arquitectura William J R Curtis Esta segunda edicion incluye 4 capitulos nuevos que nos narran con una nueva perspectiva la influencia de Le Corbusier en la arquitectura contemporanea ademas de nuevas fotografias y el rediseño del libro. Incluye sus proyectos individuales y los situa en el contexto de la filosofia y la vision urbanistica y artistica del arquitecto. Profusamente ilustrado con fotografias, planos, dibujos y bocetos originales que provienen en su mayoria del renombrado Archivo Le Corbusier"

Le Corbusier A penetrating and comprehensive study of the influential 20th-century architect.William J R Curtis A penetrating and comprehensive study of Le Corbusier (1887-1965), one of the dominant forces in 20th-century architecture and design Highly praised as one of the best works of scholarship on Le Corbusier by an eminent and award-winning architectural historian Drawing from the Le Corbusier archive, author William Curtis documents individual projects in detail while linking them to the architect's philosophy, urban visions and art, and the culture of his time Proceeds chronologically through Le Corbusier's life, with clear narrative text illustrated by extensive photographs, plans, original sketches and a section of 31 colour plates Le Corbusier (1887-1965) has been one of the dominant forces in twentieth-century architecture and a legendary pioneering figure. Many of the forms he created have become archetypes of modernism. Yet he was also a social visionary and a writer of powerful polemics whose ideas have generated intense and partisan controversy. Now available for the first time in paperback, Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms provides a comprehensive and objective survey that exposes Le Corbusier through a more balanced perspective than ever before. Making full use of the 'Le Corbusier Archive', the author documents individual projects in detail, while linking the imaginative activities of the artist to his philosophy of life, his urban visions, his art and the cultural predicaments of his times. He analyses Le Corbusier's phenomenal powers of abstraction and synthesis, to illustrate how he created a potent architectural vocabulary based on a limited range of types and elements, and how he used it to generate architectural forms of compelling force. This intimate and meticulous study of all Le Corbusier's major buildings - from first sketches to final achievement - reveals the artist's struggle to reconcile the ideal and the practical and to give institutions and ideologies a suitable symbolic form. It shows, in turn, how this most 'modern' of architects constantly found profound inspiration in both nature and archit

Terera edición de la guía clásica de la arquitectura del siglo XX de Curtis revisda y ampliada, con siete capítulos completamente nuevos e información sobre la arquitectura más reciente del mundoIncluye 35 capitulos y mas de 800 ilustraciones, ademas de una bibliografia y notas actualizadasLa asombrosa capacidad analitica de Curtis auna los avances tecnicos, econoomicos, sociales e intelectuales , y arroja nueva luz sobre la identidad regionalUn libro basico para comprender la arquitectura modernaWilliam J R Curtis ha recibido reconocimiento internacional por sus publicaciones sobre arquitectua. Dos de ellas son Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms y Denys Lasdun, ambas editadas por Phaidon

Modern Architecture Since 1900 A penetrating analysis of the modern architectural tradition and its origins.3rd editionWilliam J R Curtis This third edition of Curtis's classic guide to 20th-century architecture has been revised and expanded, with seven entirely new chapters and extended coverage of recent world architecture Contains 42 chapters and more than 800 illustrations, with fully updated bibliography and notes Curtis's masterly analysis brings together technical, economic, social and intellectual developments and adds fresh commentary on regional identity Essential reading for an understanding of modern architecture Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a comprehensive narrative which provides a setting for the detailed examination of buildings. Throughout the book the author's focus is on the individual architect, and on the qualities that give outstanding buildings their lasting value. For the third edition, the text has been radically revised and expanded, incorporating much new material and a fresh appreciation of regional identity and variety. Seven chapters are entirely new, including expanded coverage of recent world architecture. Described by James Ackerman of Harvard University as 'immeasurably the finest work covering this field in existence', this book presents a penetrating analysis of the modern tradition and its origins, tracing the creative interaction between old and new that has generated such an astonishing richness of architectural forms across the world and throughout the century.