Libros de ESTADOS UNIDOS: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

A+U Nº 571. SAN FRANCISCO URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS

Featuring recent and in progress urban transformation in San Francisco, this issue is guest edited by Craig Hartman, senior consulting design partner at the ...

YEON: JOHN YEON ARCHITECTURE. BUILDING IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

LYMAN: LYMAN HOUSE AND THE WORK OF FREDERIC P. LYMAN. DRAWING AND BUILDING

The Lyman House and the Work of Frederic P. Lyman' is an account of an inventive and skilled architect practicing in 1960s and '70s ...

THIEBAUYD: WAYNE THIEBAUD. DRAFTSMAN

Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman ...

ELLWOOD: MAKING LA MODERN. CRAIG ELLWOOD

Craig Ellwood, 'the Cary Grant of architecture,' was one of the most visible faces of California mid-century modernism. He was known as much for ...

A+U Nº 570. MAKE NEW HISTORY. AFTER THE SECOND CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

Participants of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's second edition included 140 artists and architects from 20 countries, under the theme 'Make New History', and this ...

CALIFORNIA CRAZY. AMERICAN POP ARCHITECTURE

En los albores de la era automovilística, la pasión de los estadounidenses por los viajes dio lugar a una nueva ola de imaginativos empresarios ...

ONE- TRACK MIND. DRAWING THE NEW YORK SUBWAY

For decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the New York City subway in a series of extraordinary drawings, detailing the terracotta mosaics, faience, ...

OLSON: BUILDING NATURE ART JIM OLSON

A lavish monograph celebrating one of the most respected and admired American architects, known for his sensitivity to the nature and traditions of the ...

SARGENT. OBRAS MAESTRAS

John Singer Sargent es considerado el mejor retratista de su época debido a su elegancia, su habilidad técnica para dibujar con el pincel y ...

BIONDO: HOUSE EQUANIMITY. JOSEPH N. BIONDO

Not all masterpieces scream for attention. Some wait with patience, with composure, for their genius to be felt. Joseph Biondos Equanimity House is just ...

STRANG: ENVIRONMENTAL MODERNISM. THE ARCHITECTURE OF MAX STRANG

The work of [STRANG] is beautifully explored in this robust monograph which highlights the firms site-specific and climate-driven designs. The ability to create stunning ...

CALIFORNIA CAPTURED, MID-CENTURY MODERN ARCHITECTURE, MARVIN RAND

Los Angeles photographer Marvin Rand created iconic images of some of the most celebrated architectural creations of his time, photographing buildings by the likes ...

GRAVES: MICHAEL GRAVES. DESIGN FOR LIFE

A richly illustrated tour through the lush visual imagination of Michael Graves. As we come to understand the development and thinking of this leading ...

A+U Nº 565. AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE 1945- 1970 BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ARCHITECTURE

WORKAC. WE'LL GET THERE WHEN WE CROSS THAT BRIDGE

This book surveys the projects that define WORKac (WORK Architecture Company) as one of the most progressive and playful architecture firms in practice today. ...

ROGERS: A PLACE FOR ALL PEOPLE. LIFE, ARCHITECTURE AND THE FAIR SOCIETY

Richard Rogers, founder of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is a pre-eminent architect of his generation, whose approach to buildings is infused with his ...

WILSON: NORTHERN EXPOSURE. WORKS OF CAROL A. WILSON ARCHITECT

This intimate portrait of eight houses by the Maine architect Carol A. Wilson illustrates how "local" is an idea as close to architecture as ...

SUPRARURAL ARCHITECTURE

The Atlas of rural protocols in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas is structured along eight systems of organization: transport and infrastructure, land ...

NEW ARCHITECTURE NEW YORK

From Bjarke Ingels Group's VIA West 57 to SHoP Architects' Barclays Center, and from Diller Scofidio + Renfro's High Line to SOM's One World ...