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A stylish, timely celebration of Mid-Century Modern California architecture as seen through the work of a single photographer - Includes Rand's photographs of the work of Rudolph Schindler, Craig Ellwood, Louis Kahn, A. Quincy Jones, and other leading a

Architect and educator Dirk Denison reflects on the diverse influences that have shaped his practice over 30 years in a volume featuring 10 remarkable houses designed in a broad range of modernist vocabularies each finely tuned to its site and occupants.Taking the form of an in-depth conversation between architect and educator Dirk Denison and journalist Fred A. Bernstein, this volume chronicles Denisons childhood in Detroit, travels and early encounters with the arts and architecture, and his education at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A perceptive interlocutor, Bernstein deftly draws upon Denisons own insights into how these experiences have influenced his aesthetic sensibilities, design philosophy, and working processes over 30 years of collaborative practice.

Seis textos críticos Six Critical Texts Richard Weston La búsqueda paciente de Jørn Utzon The Patient Search of Jørn Utzon Marja-Riitta Norri El sentido de la escala en las casas patio The Sense

The first monograph on Snarkitecture, a New York-based collaborative and innovative design studio with an introduction by Maria Cristina DideroFast becoming one of the world''s most sought-after studios, Snarkitecture has designed installations, architecture, products, and furniture for a diverse range of clients including COS, Kith, Calvin Klein, the New Museum, Kartell, and Beats by Dr. Dre. This book presents more than 70 of their projects and investigates how its founders, artist Daniel Arsham and architect Alex Mustonen, work at the interface between their disciplines to come up with some of the most beguiling and fascinating designs seen in recent years.

Esta es una biografía literaria inusual, compuesta por una serie de capítulos cortos, a modo de viñetas, de la vida del célebre arquitecto vienés-checoslovaco. “He escrito este libro a partir de re

Este libro reúne los principales escritos en los que Walter Gropius expresó sus ideas y motivaciones antes de su emigración a Inglaterra en 1934. Su lectura ofrece hoy visiones diferenciadas de su obra, pero tambien de la arquitectura moderna en general.Por sorprendente que pueda parecer, Gropius es en la actualidad, y en el ambito cultural de habla hispana, una figura tan paradigmatica como poco conocida, al menos en lo tocante a sus presupuestos teoricos e ideologicos. Hasta la fecha, muy pocos de sus textos se habian traducido al español casi siempre los mismos y casi siempre en versiones parciales, lo cual genero ideas equivocadas con respecto a su ideario y a su bagaje intelectual.Esta lectura parcial provoco obstinados malentendidos, cuando no interpretaciones interesadamente equivocas, y en todo ello se basaron tanto la admiracion incondicional como el rechazo ciego.Valgan como ejemplo las variadas reacciones que suscito su presunta radicalidad 'racionalista', una condicion univoca que el mismo siempre desmintio desde sus convicciones vitalistas. Lo mismo vale para su 'internacionalismo' programatico, pues, lejos de propugnar un universalismo transnacional, en sus escritos Gropius incluyo siempre la cualidad nacional de la nuev

Tan práctico como visionario, tan arquitecto como constructor, Otto Wagner abrió una nueva era en el arte de la edificación. Nacido en Viena, el proyectista no pasó inadvertido: pionero en el uso de materiales como vidrio, acero y aluminio, experimento sin pausa con formas que redefinirian la identidad estructural vienesa y la arquitectura urbana.Otto Wagner (1841-1918) es una de las figuras mas influyentes de la arquitectura del cambio de siglo. Formo parte de la Secesion Vienesa, el grupo de artistas y diseñadores liderado por Gustav Klimt que se opuso al estilo conservador que dominaba la Kunstlerhaus Wien, la Academia de Bellas Artes de Viena. El enfoque visionario de Wagner, descrito como racionalismo estructural, fue pionero en el uso de materiales como el vidrio, el acero y, especialmente, el aluminio, y redefinio la identidad estructural vienesa.Desde la imponente edificio de la Caja Postal de Ahorros austriaca hasta la esplendida San Leopoldo en Steinhof, una de las iglesias mas importantes del art nouveau en el mundo, descubra la amplitud de la obra de Wagner, asi como la realidad politica, economica y social de su epoca. Esta detallada panoramica incluye un mapa que situa sus proyectos mas destacados ademas de fotografias recientes de maestros como Keiichi Tahara.Sobre la serieCada libro de la Basic Architecture Series de TASCHEN incluye:ensayos introductorios que exploran la procedencia, vida y obra del arquitecto;las obras mas importantes por orden cronologico;informacion sobre los clientes, los requisitos arquitectonicos y los problemas y soluciones surgidos durante la puesta en practica de los proyectos;una lista de obras selectas y un mapa con el emplazamiento de las edificaciones mas conocidas y destacadas;aproximadamente 120 imagenes, entre las que se incluyen fotografias, bocetos, dibujos y planos de planta.

An architecture book for all those excited by contemporary, innovative building design and development Richly illustrated with a broad spectrum of architectural photography, drawings, and sketches A look behind the scenes with one of the world's leading architects In many regards, architecture of the 21st century has to fit a square peg into a round hole. It should be energetic and meaningful and yet be as sustainable as possible in all details. It should offer ample and proportioned space for its inhabitants, but also fit harmoniously into its environment. Architect Jean-Francois Koenig has been meeting these requirements for four decades. With the goal of improving the life quality of the inhabitants and users of his buildings, he sets out elaborate aesthetic designs that also include infrastructure and transport connections. The projects in Jean-Francois Koenig's portfolio—including offices, private houses, hotels, public buildings, and schools—reflect his enhancement and integration of the many facets of urban life. When he won the third prize in a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) competition in 1979, with Norman Foster as judge, Koenig was the only architecture student among the winners. Even at that stage, his sketch for a pedestrian link between Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square demonstrated his sense for the city environment, not to mention his outstanding graphic talent. One of Koenig's many esteemed projects is the Commercial Bank on the island of Mauritius, Koenig's native home, where he continues to reside. JEAN-FRANCOIS KOENIG was elected one of the "100 Architects 2012," a competition organized by the Interna­tional Union of Architects (UIA) and the Korean Institute of Architects (KIA). In the 1980s, he worked with the RIBA Gold Medal Award architect, Sir Philip Dowson. At the 2011 UIA World Congress in Tokyo, under the heading "Sustainable by Design 2050," his Mauritius Commercial Bank was amongst the best of the archi­tecture of Africa. Koenig has worked in England, South Africa, India, Madagascar, the Seychelles, La Réunion, and Mauritius for the last 30 years.

Desde que se autoproclamara miembro del grupo de los Cinco de Nueva York, Richard Meier ha ido encadenando importantes encargos hasta convertirse en figura clave de la arquitectura contemporánea. De Madison Square Garden a Shenzhen, en China, su modernidad elegante, su uso de la luz y del blanco como herramientas poderosas han originado algunos de los edificios mas notables y caracteristicos de los siglos XX y XXI.La lista de proyectos de Meier es tan variada como ilustre. Ha trabajado con tesoros romanos (Museo dell'Ara Pacis), centros turisticos en la costa (Jesolo Lido Village), instituciones publicas (Ayuntamiento de San Jose) y clientes privados de los Hamptons. La impronta de Meier se percibe en todas sus obras, con planos minuciosamente reticulados y su preferencia por las grandes superficies de color blanco y cristal. Los edificios irradian luz a la vez que son templos de transparencia y funcionalidad por dentro.Esta obra sobre la figura de Richard Meier ofrece una retrospectiva de la carrera del arquitecto y explora su transformacion en arquitecto de culto. El libro, con abundantes imagenes, repasa sus proyectos mas conocidos, como el Centro Getty de Los Angeles, asi como sus obras mas recientes, como la OCT Shenzhen Clubhouse de Shenzhen, en China, y el Museo de la Coleccion Burda de Baden-Baden, en Alemania.

Debemos dominar las fuerzas que se han desatado y estructurarlas de acuerdo a un nuevo orden, un orden que permita a la vida disponer de un espacio para desarrollarse en libertad" Ésta es una de las

Richard Rogers is one of the worlds most distinguished architects, as well as a powerful and effective advocate for the role of architecture and urban design in improving everyday lives. Famous for his inside out architectural style, Rogers' unique approach to architectural design has generated such landmarks as the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyds building in London. This volume, accompanying the exhibition Richard Rogers RA: Inside Out, at the Royal Academy of Arts, explores the origins of and influences on Rogerss thinking, and explains how his wide-ranging interests inform his design process. Featuring contributions from major figures from the worlds of politics, fine art, social policy, architecture and urban design, as well as an exclusive interview with Richard Rogers by the exhibitions curator Jeremy Melvin, this book shows why his work continues to be fresh, challenging and inventive and how breaking new ground in architecture impacts on wider social and cultural fields.

Richard Rogers, founder of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is a pre-eminent architect of his generation, whose approach to buildings is infused with his enthusiasm for modernism, love of life and strong sense of social justice.From the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the Lloyds Building in the City of London, and from airports, to cancer care centres to low-cost homes, the buildings he and his partners have designed blend private use, public space and civic value.In part inspired by his 2013 Royal Academy exhibition, A place for all people is a mosaic of life, projects and ideas for a better society. Ranging backwards and forwards over a long and creative life, and integrating relationships, projects, stories, collaborations and polemics, with case studies, drawings and photographs A place for all people is a dazzling and inspiring book as original as its author.

This volume addresses for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Barcelona Pavilions genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract and isolated building, it is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic.The expert contributors to this volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohes Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilions genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted and splendidly isolated building, a precursor of Miess American period, the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic.Crucial to this analysis is an understanding of the immediate context, the Barcelona International Exposition. Planned as a mass spectacle in the city with the most convulsive working class in Spain, the Exposition was a propaganda exercise by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship in which the German Republic was the guest of honor. For the first time since the Great War, Germany was taking part in an international event, and needed to present itself as a thoroughly reconstructed state. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also a total of over one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the Exposition, whose detailed analysis invites a far-reaching reinterpretation of the whole.More familiar but equally central is the question of the Pavilions connections with the mass media: the circumstances of its scant presence in the architectural journals and trade press, its a posteriori importance as a manifesto, and Miess relationship with the avant-garde cinema of the moment.From an approach closer to the history of architecture, the study of the national pavilions and commercial stands sheds light on the Barcelona Pavilions antecedents. The interpretation of the Miesian grid in the light of the botany books in his library gives fresh insight into Miess intellectual interests, and together with a brilliant disquisition on the idea of the classical in architecture completes this reappraisal of the Pavilion itself and of the construction culture which made it possible.Finally, thirty years on from the reconstruction of the Barcelona Pavilion, these timely and pertinent philosophical reflections on original and copy provide new tools with which to engage the architectural heritage and the actual building in Barcelona.

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Dossier Souto de Moura, Seven Projects Power Plant for Foz Tua Dam, Alijó (Portugal) School Campus in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi) Assembly and Arts Building Aiglon College (Switzerland) La Comédie,

Catalogo de la exposición “Ventura Rodríguez, arquitecto de la Ilustración”, celebrada del 21 de diciembre de 2017 al 8 de abril de 2018 con motivo del 300 aniversario de su nacimiento, está organiza

Adolf Loos sostenía que un edificio debe tener un exterior sobriamente discreto y reservar todas sus riquezas para el interior. Por ello, una apreciación real de la complejidad de su trabajo requiere un riguroso análisis de su trabajo de interiorismo.

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Adolf Loos held that a building should have a soberly discreet exterior, reserving all its riches for its interior. Given that, any real appreciation of the spatial complexity of the work of one of the most misunderstood architects of the twentieth century requires engagement with his interiors, which this book does, brilliantly.In marked contrast to his contemporaries in the Vienna Secession, who designed their spaces down to the smallest detail, Loos presented himself as a "professor of interior design," perfectly willing to adapt to the habits and tastes of his clients, inviting them to embrace their own tastelessness rather than defer to the discernment of an "aesthete" architect. Together with the future occupant, he designed welcoming interiors whose warmth came from the effective use of quality materials and the creation of a flowing continuity articulated by the furnishings. What Loos created thereby was not merely architecture, but a new culture of living.