Zaha Hadida (TM)s highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complexa "the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid/BMW Central Building, the seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.

Zaha Hadid fue una arquitecta revolucionaria. Durante muchos años no construyó casi nada pese a sus diseños premiados y al entusiasmo de la crítica. Algunos decían incluso que sus proyectos eran inedificables. Sin embargo, durante los ultimos años de su vida sus atrevidas visiones se hicieron realidad, llevando a las ciudades un lenguaje arquitectonico y unico, y estructuras como las oficinas portuarias de Amberes, la estacion de trenes de alta velocidad de Napoles-Afragola, en Napoles, y la nueva y espectacular terminal del aeropuerto de Pekin.Hadid murio en 2016 de forma repentina. Era una de las figuras mas consolidadas en el mundo de la arquitectura y se encontraba trabajando en proyectos en Europa, en China, el Oriente Medio y Estados Unidos. Fue la primera mujer que gano el premio Pritzker de arquitectura y la prestigiosa RIBA Royal Gold Medal, junto con su socio Patrik Schumacher, que ahora dirige Zaha Hadid Architects.Este libro, basado en la enorme monografia de TASCHEN, se encuentra ahora disponible en una edicion accesible que reune las obras completas de Hadid. Este volumen contiene numerosas fotografias, textos en profundidad e ilustraciones de la propia artista, y expone la progresion de su carrera, desde sus construcciones mas vanguardistas hasta los muebles

Throughout the built world of late, museums have been leading the way in architecture--a far cry from the days of antiseptic white cubes, when museums were afraid that signature design might compete with the art on display. Some of the most interesting international architects working today, people like Zaha Hadid, Daniel Liebeskind, Renzo Piano, and Tadao Andao, are creating buildings intended to house art--and to function as works of art themselves. One of the most radical and highly anticipated of these structures is Zaha Hadid's Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) for the city of Cincinnati, set to open its doors in 2003. The CAC will be one of the first museums anywhere in the world designed by a woman, as well as Hadid's first museum and first building in the United States. A $15 million project with 20,000 square feet of galleries set on a smallish, 11,000-square-foot lot in the downtown area, it shows that the institution that stood by the Mapplethorpe show has extended its risk-taking attitude and its integrity to the building that will accommodate its future shows. The seven stories of galleries--each constructed in a variety of heights and floor materials--are housed in horizontal tubes and cantilevered toward the street. An "urban carpet" begins at street level and zigzags up the building's supporting wall, providing visual and physical access to each of the galleries in a continuous flow--but without the awkwardness of the tilted ramp that spirals through Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum in New York. The exterior of the building weaves together the concrete shell and metal cladding of the galleries, the glass windows of the offices, and various electronic displays like ahigh-tech quilt--and a perfect expression of the various activities so well-contained within. Space for Art will include broad documentation of all stages of the architectural process, expressed in paintings, drawings, and models; short texts; and photographs of the finished building by Helene Binet.

El lenguaje arquitectónico inconfundible de Abraham Zabludovsky plasmado profundamente en los pórticos y patios mexicanos, ha consolidado a nivel mundial la tradición de la arquitectura mexicana. Hoy, Noriega Editores presenta una recopilación de la obra del reconocido arquitecto, que comprende más de 200 proyectos y edificios entre los que destacan el diseño del Museo Rufino Tamayo de la Ciudad de México. La exposición se apoya con más de 400 ilustraciones y en un ensayo crítico escrito por el director de la New York School of Interior Design, Paul Heyer.

Yoshio Taniguchi, Terence Riley"This volume celebrates Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi by presenting nine of his museum designs, from the renovation and expansion of The Museum of Modern Art - Taniguchi's only museum to be built outside of Japan - to projects in Tokyo, Kyoto, and throughout his native country. Taniguchi's museums are central to understanding his approach to architecture. Distinctly modern, each design is marked by a rich materiality, a respect for pure geometry, and a commitment to the art of building." Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums is the first critical assessment of the architect's achievements. The book unfolds chronologically, starting with his first independent museum, the 1978 Shiseido Museum of Art, and ends with his Centennial Hall, which will be part of the Kyoto National Museum upon its completion in 2007. An essay by Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, contextualizes the many threads that inform Taniguchi's work, including his early education at Harvard, his development as an architect during the movement toward a new urbanism in the 1960s, and the unfolding of a vocabulary of forms that is distinctly his own.

Este libro recoge las obras premiadas y seleccionadas en el XIV Premio de Arquitectura de Ladrillo y III Premio de Arquitectura de Teja.

In his time, William Pereira was the epitome of the public image of an architect: a rugged individualist as well as a generalist who defined rather than mimicked emerging social values. He designed every building type imaginable, from houses to hospitals, as well as inventing some of his own, such as the Television Studios for CBS in Los Angeles. For the expansion of Los Angeles International Airport he convinced the authorities to adapt the facility to jet planes before jet travel was commonplace. he was a visionary whose wide-ranging interests and pragmatism surfaced at a time when a growing nation most needed those qualities.A long-overdue tribute to William Pereira s talent and influence, this book features in-depth, behind-the-scenes views of his best-known projects, captured in the stunning photography of Julius Shulman and Wayne Thom. Features on CBS, The USC master plan, UC Irvine, The Doha master plan, the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco, and the Los Angeles International Airport characterize the spectacular scope of his career. This first complete chronology of his work is a telling record of his vast achievements.