Libros de ARQUITECTURA Y VIVIENDA

ARCHITECTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD

From mosques to markets, from citadels to cemetries, this text is a survey of the entire field of Islamic architecture. Although Islamic buildings may ...

ARCHITECTURE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING*

That a country of wealth cannot provide sound housing for those in need is a national embarrassment. This book is about the design of ...

UNPACKING DUCHAMPS: ART IN TRANSIT*

Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect--and greater controversy--than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, ...

DUCHAMP: PRIVATE WORLDS OF MARCEL DUCHAMP, THE. DESIRE, LIBERATION,* "AND THE SELF IN MODERN CULTURE"

Marcel Duchamp is a founding figure of twentieth-century art and culture, the common source to which many contemporary movements trace their roots. His career ...

ARCHITECTURE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING

That a country of wealth cannot provide sound housing for those in need is a national embarrassment. This book is about the design of ...

VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE

MOSS: ERIC OWEN MOSS. LAWSON-WESTEN HOUSE

This text looks at the Lawson-Westen House - the first major residence that Eric Owen Moss has completed since the Petal House, also in ...

ARTS & CRAFTS

Reacting to the mechanization of the industrial revolution, late-19th-century designers in England and America urged a return to the fine craftsmanship exemplified by medieval ...

RENAISSANCE

ART NOUVEAU **

Another in the StyleBooks series from Abbeville Press, this pocket-sized reference serves as a clear, readable introduction to Art Nouveau. A highly decorative art ...

ESSENTIAL BOOK OF SHAKER, THE

ART AS LANGUAGE. WITTGENSTEIN, MEANING, AND AESTHETIC THEORY

This book, as a more or less encyclopedic critique of aesthetic theories from a Wittgensteinian perspective, will be enlightening to aesthetic theorists who want ...

MONDRIAN: NATURAL REALITY AND ABSTRACT REALITY. AN ESSAY IN TRIALOGUE FORM 1919-1920

Internationally recognized as a pioneer of abstract art, the founder of Neo-Plasticism, and the ideological father of the De Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) ...

WINTERTHUR GARDEN, THE

AMERICAN PLASTIC. A CULTURAL HISTORY

Meikle, professor of American studies and art history at the University of Texas, presents a splendid history of plastic. The book is authoritative, thorough, ...

NEW AUSTRIAN ARCHITECTURE, THE

Over the past decade, a younger generation of Austrian architects has attracted increasing attention with dynamic new forms and high-profile commissions. Continuing the tradition ...

ASYMPTOTE. : HANNI RASHID + LISE ANNE COUTURE. ARCHITECTURE AT THE INTERVAL *

Founded in New York in 1987, Asymptote is a highly regarded, innovative young firm whose avant-garde work includes building designs, urban planning proposals, gallery ...

AMERICAN MASTERWORKS. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSE

Surveys modern domestic architecture, and describes the influences of Frank Lloyd Wright, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, and others.

TILE, STONE & BRICK. THE CREATIVE TOUCH

ARCHITECTURE . NEW MODERN, THE