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A comprehensive survey of the work of one of the most important Japanese architects working today.Edited by Arata Isozaki and Ken Tadashi Oshima Arata Isozakis (b.1931) work blends an Eastern architectural style with emerging global trends, and his theories have been important in bringing Western architecture to Japan This book presents the most comprehensive selection available of his built and unbuilt projects from the beginning of his career to the present day, and is extensively illustrated with drawings, silkscreens, sketches and models from the Isozaki Office Archive Each chapter features introductory essays by Ken Tadashi Oshima and theoretical texts by Isozaki, most of them published here for the first time Arata Isozaki is one of the most important and influential Japanese architects working today. Born in Oita, Japan, in 1931, he attended Tokyo University and later worked and studied under Kenzo Tange. In 1963, he opened his own practice and since then has realized a large number of buildings in Japan, Europe and the United States.Through his work, both as an architect and as a theorist, Isozaki has acted as a bridge between the East and the West, exporting Japanese architecture into the Western world and importing outside trends and movements into Japan. Arata Isozaki has conceived this book in collaboration with Ken Tadashi Oshima. It presents a unique, monographic tour through his architecture from the first visionary urban projects of the 1960s to his latest buildings, realized all over the world. The projects featured in the book have been carefully selected from Isozaki''s vast portfolio. They are not presented in chronological order but are grouped in chapters titled and arranged in accordance with Isozaki''s instructive categorizations of his own work. Each of the six chapters contains conceptual texts by Isozaki (many previously untranslated or unpublished); critical analysis by Oshima; a main case study project (extensively illustrated and explored); and a survey of related projects. Emulating one of Isozaki''s central tenets that ''the city, architecture, and various social systems are nothing more than processes'', there is an emphasis on process throughout the book - from conception, through construction, to use. We are introduced to projects through drawings

Varias razones nos han llevado a la publicación completa de las casas unifamiliares de Mies van der Rohe. En primer lugar, la ausencia de ediciones exhaustivas sobre la obra doméstica de Mies van der Rohe; la más completa que puede encontrarse fue publicada en alemán en 1981: Tegethoff, Wolf, Mies van der Rohe: Die Villen und Landhausprojekte, R. Bacht, Essen, 1981. A pesar de su rigor, omitía la obra europea temprana y parte de los proyectos americanos no construidos, centrándose en lo que podríamos llamar la etapa clásica del autor. La repercusión de este libro fue enorme y abrió nuevas perspectivas al estudio de Mies, arrojando luz sobre obras casi inéditas hasta entonces. En su etapa americana, cuando su labor empezaba a valorarse en toda su dimensión y era objeto de exposiciones y publicaciones, Mies van der Rohe ocultó conscientemente sus primeras obras, y muy pocas de ellas se recogieron en sus primeras monografías. La destrucción de los documentos almacenados en su estudio berlinés de la calle Am Karlsbad a mediados de la década de 1920 contribuyó, sin duda, a la imagen que el propio Mies quiso dar de sí mismo.

Con un lenguaje equilibrado y, a la vez, llamativo, Central se ha convertido en un referenteurbano, seduciendo a quienes buscan esa peculiar fusión de lujo, discreción y materialesnovedosos, asociados a una formula empresarial que abarca desde el programa hastael diseño y la venta.El libro, de factura tan sobria como contemporanea, reune diez de sus proyectos: ochoedificios de departamentos (en la ciudad de Mexico) y dos hoteles (en el Caribe), loscuales se insertan, con frescura y elegancia, tanto en el caos metropolitano como enlas playas caribeñas, reflejando esa estetica que Fernanda Canales denomina Oel espaciooptimista".OResumiendo en dificil equilibrio diseño y costos, seguridad y libertad, lemas ecologicosy materiales seductores, la obra de Central de Arquitectura funge como simbolo de unaepoca", donde la ausencia de un discurso especifico se refugia en la ligereza de una imagen que busca brillar mas alla de su consistencia.

La Experiencia de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso es probablemente uno de los intentos más radicales por establecer un lenguaje y una manera propias para la práctica de la arquitectura en el continente sudamericano. La expresión de esa búsqueda tiene a lo menos dos manifestaciones evidentes: la realización períodica de travesías por el territorio americano y la fundación de Ciudad Abierta, un campo de experimentación permanente que relaciona modos de vida, paisaje, materia y construcción. Formada en ese contexto, Cazú Zegers ha producido un conjunto de obras que intentan una continuidad con la línea propuesta por la Escuela de Valparaíso. La incorporación de materiales ligeros y sistemas constructivos elementales, cierta condición temporal de las estructuras, la valorización del oficio del carpintero y una voluntad de fundar una manera particular de ocupar el territorio caracterizan este conjunto de proyectos, construidos entre 1992 y 2006. Entre ellos, las obras levantadas en Kawelluco, entre un volcán y el lago Villarica en el sur de Chile, parecen definitivamente alineadas con la imagen propuesta por Amereida: una arquitectura nueva para el espacio americano.

It has been said that the Sendai Mediatheque (2000), with its revolutionary approach to engineering, marks a turning point not only in Toyo Ito''s architecture but in contemporary architecture in general. Before Sendai, Ito''s work emphasized structural lightness and transparency, and what he saw as the ever-changing ''non-context'' of Japanese cities. But though Ito''s designs still show these early influences, after the Sendai Mediatheque he began to leave behind what he increasingly saw as the boring and inappropriate boxes favoured by modernism, and move toward a light, sensuous and often organic architecture that engages with the cities around it and the people who inhabit it.These ideas are exemplified in this unique volume, where Toyo Ito presents a selection of his projects, all extensively illustrated with photos, diagrams, drawings, and computer realizations. Each of the book''s projects and thematic sections is introduced with a short essay by Ito. The distinguished Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has provided an introduction to the book, while the well-known critics Dana Buntrock (USA) and Taro Igarashi (Japan) have contributed essays that provide valuable perspective on Ito''s complex works.

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (18911979) was the creator of a multifaceted oeuvre. Starting off with ceramics and majolika works at the First International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Monza, he moved on to furniture and interior design and built structures of all kinds, from small residential dwellings to high rise buildings, schools, and office blocks. One of his great interests was the theme of the home, for which he continually sought to find new solutions. Pontis colorful, carefree, elegant spaces were designed to inspire optimism in their occupants. The founder and nearly lifelong editor of domus magazine never stopped developing and reinventing his style. This book provides an introduction to Pontis creative process and gives an overview of the various phases of his career.

Dimitris Pikionis nace en EL Pireo en 1887 y muere en Atenas en 1968. Su trayectoria se caracteriza por una obra exigua e intensa, basada en el pensamiento poético que tiene como telón de fondo la cultura mediterranea y su intrahistoria, que se relaciona con Extremo Oriente.

113 arquitectos que determinarán el estilo de nuestras ciudades durante los próximos 30 años. Tendencias docentes, teóricas y estéticas del ejercicio profesional de la arquitectura en todo el mundo. Con este libro podrá valorar lo buenas que son en realidad estas jóvenes estrellas. Son profesionales para quienes las antiguas categorías ya no son válidas, y para los que la modernidad ya no es la ortodoxia. Debido a que el papel que desempeñan los arquitectos en las ciudades está en continuo cambio, esta hornada de jóvenes arquitectos ejerce trabajos muy variados, de ahí que entre ellos haya escritores, críticos, comisarios de exposiciones, diseñadores de moda, programadores informáticos, promotores inmobiliarios y constructores. La obra de cada arquitecto, escogida y descrita desde una perspectiva crítica, se examina en detalle para revelar los enfoques que cristalizarán en los próximos años y décadas.

Renzo Piano is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1998, Piano is certainly one of the most interesting and acclaimed contemporary architects. Since his first building, the Centre Pompidou in Paris produced in collaboration with architect Sir Richard Rogers, he has realised a great number of attractive buildings all over the world, always creating new languages that combine a deep concern of the topography of the site, a clear comprehension of the brief and an amazing interest in the experimentation of new technologies. In Volume Five, Peter Buchanan shows, as he has in the previous four volumes, that Piano follows no fashions of form or theory, nor is he limited to a personal idiom. Instead he concerns himself with the specifics and potential of a particular situation and moment, meeting the challenges of the programme, often pushing technology beyond its present limits, and always responding sensitively to the urban fabric of the building's site. The first four volumes of the Complete Works have traced Piano's career from his early collaborations with Rogers and Peter Rice, and the formation of the Building Workshop in 1981, to the completion of Kansai Airport in 1995. This fifth volume will include Piano's latest buildings, which illustrate the continuing complexity of his work. Chief amongst these are the Nasher Collection in Dallas, the Woodruff Arts Centre Expansion in Atlanta, USA, Maison Hermes in Tokyo, Japan, and the Aurora Place Office and Apartment Towers in Sydney, Australia. As before, the book will also include 'work in progress', to demonstrate the full diversity of the Building Workshop's activities. This includes the London Bridge Tower, UK.

André Jordan es una de las personas que ha conseguido transformar el Algarve de Portugal en la región que hoy conocemos. Aplicando una filosofía propia a cada una de sus promociones, ha demostrado una extraordinaria capacidad para crear entornos capaces de modificar el estilo de vida de sus habitantes. Este libro pone de relieve su especial forma de ejercer una influencia civilizadora en el entorno. Andre Jordan es mucho mas que un promotor inmobiliario y un empresario internacional. Le interesa la gente y posee un instinto natural para mejorar sus condiciones de vida. Los equipos con los que ha trabajado pronto se dieron cuenta de la necesidad de llevar a cabo promociones inmobiliarias en armonia con la naturaleza. Los resultados han demostrado la necesidad cientifica de integrar el paisaje y sus recursos, que no solo han de obtenerse en el si de las promociones, sino que ademas han de ser provechosos y adecuados.

The first comprehensive monograph on the internationally renowned Japanese architect The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Hitoshi Abe (b.1962), one of the most interesting of Japan''s new generation of architects Abe''s architecture is internationally renowned for its structural innovation and spatial complexity, and in 2007 he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles Includes all Abe''s major works from the 1990s to the present, including the Miyagi Stadium, Rifu (2000), Reihoku Community Hall (2002) - for which he won the Architectural Institute of Japan Award in 2003 - and the Kanno Museum, Shiogama (2006) Every project is illustrated with a wealth of interior and exterior photographs, as well as drawings by the architect and computer renderings Explores Abe''s distinctive aesthetic in detail, which combines an emphasis on everyday use with innovative engineering solutions

Starting with the Renaissance, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and offers concise portraits of the geniuses behind them. This accessible and lively survey takes readers around the world and through history, from Filippo Brunelleschi to Antoni Gaudi to Frank Gehry. It contains double-page spreads that feature full-color illustrations, informative sidebars, and a timeline that extends throughout the book. (...)

Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) no conoció en vida la valoración que merecía. Su obra fue tachada de «mero» arte y tan solo después de su muerte se empezó a comprender su calidad. Este libro muestra la evol