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The Architectural Documents series sees the publication of the first monograph on one of the most extraordinary figures on the contemporary architectural scene, Toyo Ito of Japan (born in 1941). Since the 1970s Ito has been carrying out research into building materials, light and space, research which has led him to design buildings that he himself has defined as non material aerial structures, fluid and permeable spaces which avoid rigid compositional geometries. Over the years Ito has gradually simplified his language, and his works, the structure of which has increasingly lost importance, can be studied as a series of variations on the layering of the facade. His obsession with lightness and transparency are expressed to the full in the most important work of his creative career, the Sendai Mediatheque (19952001). This book, with an exceptional body of illustrations, presents the Japanese architects most significant projects, starting with the Aluminium House of 19701 through to the most recent project for the Mahler 4 office block in Amsterdam (200-1). The appendix includes a complete list of Toyo Ito`s works, a selection of his writings, as well as a biographical summary and up-to-date bibliography.

Ha sido necesario un estudio completo de la forma y disposición de todas las casas. Una urbanización con edificación libre hubiera limitado enormemente el número de apartamentos y las vistas al mar.La gran densidad de edificacion ha sido tambien necesaria para compensar los elevados precios del terreno. A pesar de esta gran densidad, las construcciones quedan practicamente ocultas por el arbolado existente.La orientacion general es a Este, por ser la mas favorable para evitar el calor excesivo en pleno verano. Permite ademas las mejores vistas al mar y una buena adaptacion al terreno.Las casas estrechas estan escalonadas en sentido vertical, para que cada casa disponga, por lo menos, de un living, un dormitorio y una terraza con vistas al mar, y para conseguir la mejor adaptacion al terreno. Tambien estan dispuestas escalonadamente en sentido horizontal para que exista la mayor independencia posible entre unas y otras.Las calles estan debajo de las casas, para evitar que el publico circule frente a los cuartos de estar y para que los niños puedan jugar en ella en caso de lluvia. En ellas estan previstos locales que puedan utilizarse como almacenes o tiendas.Las zonas de arbolado entre las casas permiten un primer termino de arboles frente al cuarto de estar. Las zonas libres prolongan la vist...

Mundo, nos acerca a diez de los mejores arquitectos del mundo a través de diversa información sobre su trayectoria profesional, varias entrevistas personales, así como material gráfico de díversa índole, Zaha Hadid, premio Pritzker 2004, nos presenta los renders del Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Roma, que recuerda a un campo urbano irrigado de exposiciones lineares, un gran tejido de densa textura, que se intecra en su entorno y en el que no hay barreras entre interior y exterior: Podremos ver las imagenes en 3D del Museo Mercedes Benz de Ben Van Berkel, sin duda, un icono para la ciudad de Stuttgart. Como la Torre Diputacion 2002 de Cesar Pelli, que se erigira como un gran obelisco, visible desde cualquier punto de Bilbao. El arquitecto argentino ha construido un edificio virtualmente de mayor altura, dejando que sea el espectador el que prolongue hacia el cielo sus aristas, que convergiran en un punto en el infinito. Steven Holl nos muestra el Museo de las Confluencias de lyon, una obra situada entre dos rios, cuya arquitectura se caracteriza por la fluidez entre los espacios, actualmente en construccion, al igual que el Plan Urbano de Donau City de Dominique Perrault, que modificara el perfil de Viena con una serie de rascacielos de aspecto futurista. Veremos algunas de los ultimas obras de Tadao Ando, como la 4x4 House en Hyogo (Japon), una casa proyectada en el paisaje, y la Casa do Cinema de Eduardo Souto de Moura, al que conoceremos mejor a traves de una entrevista sobre su trayectoria profesional y su particular vision de la arquitectura actual. Nos aproximaremos a la arquitectura ecleptica y abstracta de Rafael Moneo con el Museo de Arte moderno de Estocolmo. Algunas de las obras de Shigeru Ban nos introducen en una arquitectura marcada por la investigacion de los materiales y la busqueda de la transparencia estructural, que tanto caracterizan a este arquitecto japones fuertemente comprometido con las victimas de las guerras o desastres naturales y defensor activo del medioambiente. Jean Nouvel nos conecta con la poesia latente del mundo contemporaneo con la Torre Agbar, un edificio de as

Murcutts houses combine the minimalist Mies-ian pavilion with the primitive hut to produce a striking and peculiarly Australian synthesis. These three houses chart the development of Murcutts unique style, demonstrating his alliance of refinement and primitiveness.

Antoni Gaudí has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelona’s cityscape was no mad eccentric. He was a genius inspired by his faith i

A complete and detailed virtual tour of the Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudi''s master work.Text and commentaries in Catalan, Spanish and English. Includes original drawings of the temple, photographs of its constructions, interactive panels and thematic videos

Luis Barragan is an icon of contemporary architecture-a genius of color, light, walls, the garden, the tower, the rooftop, he has influenced an entire generation of current architects, not least of them his one-time collaborator Ricardo Legorreta. Admirers of his work note its serenity, its harmony. In 1979, when Barragan was presented the Pritzker Prize, his work was referred to as "a sublime act of the poetic imagination." It is this aspect of Barragan''s work that is presented in The Life and Work of Luis Barragan, a biographical portrait that reveals Barragan as a master of what he himself called "emotional architecture." Barragan''s impressions and influences are recorded here, from his early years in Gudalajara to his work in Mexico City, and his highly inspiring travels in the Alhambra, the villages of Greece, and northern Africa. His rejection of the concepts of Le Corbusier and the International Style, and his embrace of the ideas of the French intellectual, painter, and landscape architect Ferdinand Bac provided valuable framework for understanding both the theory and form of Barragan''s oeuvre. Brilliant color photographs record Barragan''s vibrant work as it has never been seen before, including generous interior shots of such varied projects as Casa Cristo in Guadalajara, and Casas Galvez, Egerstrom, and Meyer, all from his Mexico City years. Barragan was perhaps first and foremost a landscape architect, and this book spotlights his gardens, and his vanguard, landscape-based approach to architecture itself-centered on the close relationship between landscape, color, and architecture in Mexico and the other lands that inspired him. Text and photographs combine in TheLife and Work of Luis Barragan for a personal and evocative portrayal of the Mexican master that will fascinate everyone familiar with his legacy, and intrigue those who are only just discovering the power and influence of his work.