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John StonesTotal Design Sourcebook is a new series that aims to round up the very best design solutions within a particular field. A mixture of case study and analysis, this series features inspirational ideas, concise interviews, innovative solutions, and imaginative imagery, all presented in a sophisticated, picture-led format, which will become a design studio must-have. By emphasizing the cross-disciplinary nature of today''s design consultancies, and the greater role of collaboration between designers and firms with different skills and specialties, the Total Design Sourcebook series presents a holistic approach to design, which accurately illustrates the way brands are designed and marketed these days. The first title in this exciting new series, Display, includes 55 projects from galleries, exhibitions, museums, and trade shows. For each project, the total design is examined, including architecture, interiors, exhibition design, lighting, banners, branding, identity, interface design, packaging, and websites.

Este libro analiza el proyecto de remodelación de las Viviendas del Gobernado, que significó un cambio de paradigma en los modelos de remodelación urbana. Parallevar a cabo esta recuperación y dignificacion de un area de la ciudad donde los ciudadanos vivian en pesimas condiciones, se llego a un consenso entre las tres administraciones (Estado, Generalidad y Ayuntamiento) y con las asociaciones de vecinos que impulsaron un proyecto que tenia como objetivos: dotar de vivienda digna a mas de 700 familias, recuperar una actividad comercial digna y al servicio del barrio, dotar al barrio de equipamientos publicos y mejorar las condiciones sociales.

Eduard Seler estaba fascinado por la compleja simbología y religión del México antiguo y, como dice en su breve introducción, pensaba que las imágenes de animales en códices y en monumentos “no repre

German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the nineteenth and twentieth century worlds of image making and bring a distinctly sculptural aspect to a firmly two-dimensional art form. Beautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, Blossfeldt's images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselves. They are still-lifes, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their technical brilliance and the ongoing fascination of students and photographers. Like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective.

Compartiendo la misma pasión por los coches, Steve McQueen (1930-1980) y William Claxton divennereo amigos durante los primeros años de su carrera de McQueen y se mantuvo hasta la prematura muerte del gran actor. Claxton para que pudiera seguir todos los de su metamorfosis de la fauna salvaje motociclista, una estrella de Hollywood, desde Dongiovanni un hombre de familia, siempre la captura de los mas enigmaticos de su personalidad altalenante, desde un duro inescrutable joven dulce y romantica. Y asi el talento del fotografo esta perfectamente en consonancia con el poliedricita del tema. En este libro son los verdaderos inmortalizado por Steve McQueen fan de Claxton.

El cemento es el material de construcción más utilizado en el mundo. Alrededor de siete millones de metros cúbicos se utilizan cada año, casi más de un metro cúbico por persona. El cemento es la piedra creadas por los seres humanos que refleja el carácter de la creatividad humana, junto con el encanto de un material "eterno".

Formulated in 1967, the PREVI Experimental Housing Project in Lima is one of the most ambitious experiments in social housing ever built, not only for the number of variables proposed but also because it brought together, for the first time, such outstanding figures on the architectural scene of the time as Aldo van Eyck, Charles Correa, James Stirling, Christopher Alexander, Atelier 5, Fumihiko Maki, Candilis, Josic and Woods, among others. With their proposals for low-density, progressive housing they jointly debated various ways of creating the city in a context of limited resources and urgent urbanisation. A study of PREVI after more than three decades since its formulation seeks not only to salvage the original construction along the lines of an ''archaeological'' survey, which reclaims the authorial oeuvre hidden behind the constant interventions on the part of its occupants, but aims to call into question the idea of housing as a habitational solution, the role of the architect in the process and the materials of the design as scarce resources. To salvage the idea of neighbouring units, the rapport between public and communal space, the values and possibilities of a more open city planning and the different family structures against the actual standardisation of the user.

The 2008 Pritzker Prize winner explores his career to date The work of France''s most unique and internationally celebrated contemporary architect in a book designed by the master himself. Limited to 1,000 signed and numbered copies packaged in a translucent plexiglass slipcase especially designed by Jean Nouvel for this edition. Recipient of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, Jean Nouvel is without any doubt Frances most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he was an assistant of the influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, then creating his own office in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (198187, with Architecture Studio). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House (198693), the Euralille Shopping Center, Lille (199194), and the Fondation Cartier, Paris (199194). His major completed projects since 2000 include the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland (19982000), the spectacular Agbar Tower on Barcelonas Diagonal Avenue (200103), the extension of the Reina Sofia Museum, (Madrid, 19992005), the Quai Branly Museum on the Seine in Paris (200106), and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Apart from receiving this years Pritzker Prize, Jean Nouvel won the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Gold Medal in 2001. Jean Nouvel worked for five years with author Philip Jodidio on this prodigiously illustrated TASCHEN monograph, a book that will finally give the full measure of the architects talent. Two 400-page hardcover volumes give the most complete overview to date of Jean Nouvels career, including works in progress, such as the new Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the extension of the MoMA in New York. The books graphic design and images were conceived and selected by the architect; in addition, the transparent printed dust jackets mimic the architects own tendency to play with contrasts and overlaid patterns. One can truly say that this publication is Nouvel by Nouvel, inside and out.

La necesidad de estar en contacto directo con la naturaleza es el motivo principal por el que suele buscarse una residencia fuera de la ciudad. Este libro presenta diversos proyectos, que en algunos casos redefinen de forma radical el concepto de restauracion de un edificio. Para el arquitecto, el reto es fusionar tecnicas y materiales del pasado con las necesidades actuales. El empleo de la tecnologia contribuye a simplificar estructuras, disminuir costes y ofrecer opciones de ahorro energetico.

The technique of stop-motion model animation - bringing models to life by filming them one frame at a time - was the most important way of creating cinematic monsters and fantasy creatures before the advent of computer-generated imagery. It is a technique that will forever be associated with names of Willis O'Brien, the creator of "King Kong", and Ray Harryhausen, whose films thrilled a generation of post-World War II movie-goers. But the first crude model animations were made in the 1890s and in the first two decades of the twentieth century pioneers producing short animated films before O'Brien created the first two animated features, "The Lost World" and "King Kong" in the dying days of silent film. Moreover, stop-motion model animation is still alive and flourishing, most notably in the work of directors Tim Burton and Aardman Animation's Nick Park, whose plasticine creations have starred in major hits such as Chicken Run and The Curse of the Were-rabbit.In this book, Ray Harryhausen and his co-author Tony Dalton trace the history of the genre to which Ray devoted the whole of his working life, from the almost accidental discovery that inanimate objects could be brought to life on the screen to movies such as Jurassic Park, which combined model animation with computer-based techniques to bring a new generation of prehistoric creatures to life.In doing so he gives his readers a fascinating insight into the patience and ingenuity of the animators, explains the development and refinement of the technology, especially that which enabled actors and animated models to interact on the same screen, and gives us tantalising glimpses of the many abandoned projects which litter the history of model animation.The book is lavishly illustrated with stills, many of them from forgotten movies and never before published in book form, sketches and storyboards for projects, explanatory diagrams, rare photographs of animators and artists at work and a host of memorabilia.This book completes the trilogy that began with "Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life" and continued with "The Art of Ray Harryhausen". Tells the whole story of stop-motion model animation from the late nineteenth-century pioneers to the work of Tim Burton and Aardman Animation. It includes rare stills and many previously unpublished photographs showing Harryhausen and other animators at work and

Libro dedicado al cine de animación japonés por la semana de Cine fantástico y de terror de San Sebastián.

D.S. AndrewsFound in our archives, the Black''s Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on famous Continental cities such as Paris and Venice. The result is a charming series of books that present a fascinating look at British and European locations as they were almost a century ago. This title looks at Bath and Wells as they were in 1920.