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Para interpretar los cambios esenciales que esta experimentando la arquitectura americana, Gavin Macrae-Gibson examina críticamente siete obras emblemáticas de otros tantos arquitectos, tomándolas como base para descubrir siete temas de esta nueva arquitectura: la representacion de la percepcion (Gehry), la inquietud milenarista (Eisenman), la sensibilidad del silencio (Pelli), la busqueda de lo sublime (Graves), el sentido escenografico (Stern), la continuidad de lo clasico (Greenberg) y la ironia de la dificil totalidad (Venturi). El autor, arquitecto y profesor de la Universidad de Yale, rechaza una vision de esta arquitectura basada en los supuestos teoricos del movimiento moderno y aboga por una nueva logica poetica que combinada con el analisis formal saque a la luz las distintas capas de significado de estos edificios, hasta llegar a la ultima de ellas: su vida secreta.

Giorgio Vasari se cuenta entre los máximos exponentes del Cinquecento gracias a la publicación, en 1550, por el editor ducal Lorenzo Torrentino, de «Las vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pinto

This delightful book presents Victorian gardening style and design using beautiful landscapes lavish with carpet beds, topiary, statuary, sundials, marble and stone walkways, as well as classical architectural ruins, fountains, and pools. Highlights include Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight (Queen Victoria's country home), Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, and Down House in Kent (home to Charles Darwin). Gorgeously illustrated with over 200 beautiful color photographs plus illustrations, diagrams, and layouts of restorations and recreations, this book is sure to inspire and give the reader confidence to experiment.

The origins of the V&A go back to 1837 and it has grown to be one of the world´s greatest museums. Its collections include ancient textiles, modern chairs, sculpture by Michelangelo, paintings by constable, fabulous Indian jewellery and miniatures, and over thirty-four thousand ceramics.

La demanda continua de novedad en las monografías de arquitectos hace que otros arquitectos de mayor edad, pero con una obra de gran calidad, hayan sido religados a un segundo plano. Esta monografía presenta la obra de Victor Rahola (Barcelona, 1945), desde sus edificios publicos en Barcelona, como la biblioteca de la Facultad de Biologia hasta el Edificio collage, hasta sus viviendas e instalaciones hoteleras en las Islas Baleares.

Victor Horta (18611947) is well known as the creator of Art Nouveau architecture. Following the design of the Hotel Tassel, Brussels, in 1893, Horta produced more than 40 buildings during the following decade. This new book discusses the many influences on his designs, and his legacy. Detailed descriptions of 19 projects, including Edicule Lambeaux, Hotel Autrique, Hotel Max Hallet and the Brugmann Hospital, are illustrated with Hortas original drawings and specially commissioned photographs by award-winning architectural photographer Alastair Carew-Cox. Included in this book are extensive photographs of Hotel Solvay, one of Hortas most important works; access to photographers had been denied for 20 years, but special access was granted to Alastair Carew-Cox in the summer of 2016 in recognition of his and Professor David Dernies significant contribution to the study of Horta.Victor Horta: The Architect of Art Nouveau has been prepared in close collaboration with the Horta Museum, Brussels, ensuring that it is both accurate and up to date. It will appeal to anyone interested in Art Nouveau, one of the great aesthetic movements of the early 20th century. Its richly ornamental style of fluid lines based on natural forms expressed a desire to abandon the historical styles of the 19th century and to develop a language that was beautifully crafted and thoroughly contemporary, laying the foundations for the development of modernism in architecture and interior design.

Un gran libro de pequeño formato. 10 proyectos presentados con fotografías, planos secciones, memorias descriptivas, todas las obras con su plano de ubicación y datos técnicos y referenciales. Incluye la cronologia de obras desde 1878 a 1941.

Amid the mid-century debates surrounding the development and transformation of the American city and suburb, a renowned architect-planner, Victor Gruen (1903-80), became one of the most important figures in this rapidly changing context. Tremendously influential during the 1950's and 60s, Gruen's work was driven by urban planning problems created by the rapid onset of new suburbias, urban highways, and the subsequent deterioration of existing downtowns. Dubbed the "pioneer of the shopping center," Gruen envisioned the suburban mall as a new type of urban public space in the new dispersed residential fabric. In this book, which outlines the theories and projects that mark a thirty year period, Alex Wall presents the largely overlooked story of conflict between the ambition of an architect and the transformation of American society, cities, and landscape. This book is a fascinating exploration of postwar America and the ongoing validity of Gruen's theories and work within current urban discourse.