Libros de ARQUITECTURA Y VIVIENDA

NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE. NATURAL FORMS IN MAN'S HAND*

"Nature," wrote Novalis in a poem of Fragments, "is a magical city frozen in stone." This book, instead, considers architecture as the magical transcription ...

ARCHITETTURA DEL FERRO. LA DINAMARCA 1815-1914.

YOUNG GERMAN ARCHITECTS. VOL.2

What is happening on the young German architectural scene? Which issues are confronting the under 40s' generation? Which role does ecology or computer technology ...

AN ARCHITECT MEETS ARCHITECTS **

Looking at 50 architects, this text provides an appraisal of the personalities which have dominated architecture from the perspective of buildings, interiors, furniture, and ...

MISTRETTA: GIOVANNI MISTRETTA **

NEW COLLECTIVE SPACES IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY, THE. THE WEST ARC FOR THESSALONIKI

TSCHUMI: EVENT-CITIES 2

In Event-Cities (MIT Press, 1994), Bernard Tschumi expanded his architectural concerns to address the issue of cities and their making. Event-Cities 2 continues this ...

ART AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES*

Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label "sociology of art," it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For ...

JONES: INIGO JONES

Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the ...

MODERN LIFE & MODERN SUBJECTS. "BRITISH ART IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY"

In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of "Twentieth-Century Art". The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting ...

SICKERT: WALTER SICKERT. A CATALOGUE RAISONNE

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) was possibly the most important and influential early modern British artist. He belonged to the generation that absorbed the modernity of ...

SPACE AND THE ARCHITECT. LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 2

This book charts the background to Hertzberger's work of the last ten years and the ideas informing it, drawing on a wide spectrum of ...

PRINZ EISENBETON. PROJECT 96 TO 99

BOTTA: MARIO BOTTA. CENTRE DURRENMATT NEUCHATEL

LE CORBUSIER: EL SENTIDO CUBISTA DE LE CORBUSIER

Este texto trata de acercarse a una inquietante atmósfera de cambio que surgio a partir del mundo plástico a principios del Sioglo XX, concretamente ...

VILLA, THE. FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN

ANCIENT EGYPT. DECORATIVE KIT**

Make your own hieroglyphs with this special boxed kit. It contains 29 rubber stamps depicting amulets, symbols and the basic Eygptian alphabet, along with ...

ARTLESS JEW, THE. MEDIEVAL AND MODERN AFFIRMATIONS AND DENIALS OF THE VISUAL*

This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish ...

INDIA MODERN. TRADITIONAL FORMS AND CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

This mini paperback presents a photographic compilation of modern Indian craft, design and architecture, placed in the context of Indian history and traditions. It ...

SALARA Nº 12/ 2000