Books about COUNTRIES: ARCHITECTURE AND ART

THE KINETIC CITY AND OTHER ESSAYS

This book presents Rahul Mehrotra's writings over the last thirty years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. This ...

HUTONG METABOLISM

Small stone hutongs, built within a courtyard-and-alley system, are emblematic of Beijing's traditional inner-city architecture which still contends with modern, cooperate redevelopments to shape ...

SELVA: REGARDING SPACE AND SPACES. THE CHAMBERED FLOOR PLANS AND LUCA SELVA ARCHITECTS

The architectural structuring principle of the cellular compartment floor plan is as simple as it is economical, yet it allows for spatial and combinatorial ...

ARCHITECTURE IN THE NETHERLANDS YEARBOOK 2020/2021

For over 30 years 'Architecture in the Netherlands' has provided an indispensable overview of Dutch architecture for everyone with a professional or more general ...

ESCENAS EN LA AMERICA DESERTICA

"El desierto me tiene esclavizado y me alegra decir que todavía me asombra descubrir que es así", escribe Reyner Banham en este libro, uno ...

ROMA ES AGUA. "ESCENOGRAFÍAS LÍQUIDAS."

¿Cómo podemos aprender los secretos del Tiber, de las fuentes siempre fluyendo, o de las conducciones escondidas que nos llevan hasta los acueductos, y ...

LIVING IN JAPAN 40TH ED.

La arquitectura japonesa tradicional es tan rica y extraordinaria que resulta difícil de superar. No obstante, los diseñadores y arquitectos japoneses contemporáneos no ceden ...

WILLIAMS: AMANCIO WILLIAMS. LA IDEA DIBUJADA

Sobre la base de algunos trabajos relativamente recientes de mi autoría ahora revisados y reelaborados para esta edición, este pequeño libro pretende en un ...

AALTO: A+U Nº 606. ALVAR AALTO HOUSES. MATERIALS AND DETAILS

Content: Essay: Close-ups - A world of materials and details Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen Villa Vekara Terho Manner House Villa Flora Villa Tammekann The Aalto House ...

ANDO: RESIDENTIAL MASTERPIECES 31: TADAO ANDO ROW HOUSE IN SUMIYOSHI OSAKA

The three works selected for this volume on Tadao Ando are not recent in chronological terms. However, the quality of being novel is one ...

YUUSUKE KARASAWA. TOWARD NERWORK TYPE ARCHITECTURE BY ALGORITHMIC METHOD

Yuusuke Karasawa is a Japanese architect who uses algorithmic modelling and thought to create his designs for architecture and urban spaces. It is a ...

HOFFMANN: JOSEF HOFFMANN 1870-1956. PROGRESS THROUGH BEAUTY "THE GUIDE OF HIS OEUVRE"

New standard reference work This book is the first comprehensive document to the complete works of Josef Hoffmann. As a student of Otto Wagner, ...

TANGE: KENZO TANGE. GLI ANNI DELLA RIVOLUZIONE FORMALE

Focalizzandosi sul periodo 1960/2020, il volume delinea un preciso periodo della ricerca tanghiana, proiettandolo all'interno della sfera culturale giapponese e rintracciando, al contempo, quella ...

TEMPLE AND TEAHOUSE IN JAPAN

After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His studies of 17th- and 18th-century wooden ...

CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE

Desde que la Exposición Universal de Osaka de 1970 cedió el protagonismo a las formas contemporáneas, Japón ha sido uno de los actores clave ...

ÁVILA ROMÁNICO IMPRESCINDIBLE "ÁVILA ROMÁNICO IMPRESCINDIBLE"

LEDERER RAGNARSDOTTIR OEI 1

Architects Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei have been specialized in architecture for more than three decades, consistently adhering to the guiding principle: 'First the city, then ...

MIES VAN DER ROHE: NEUE NATIONALGALERIE BERLIN. REFURBISHMENT OF AN ARCHITECTURAL ICON

The Neue Nationalgalerie on the Berlin Kulturforum is an architectural icon as well as the crowning conclusion of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's ...

DUTCH ARCHITECTURE. BAUHAUSBÜCHER 10

"I am not an art historian but an architect: the future is more important to me than the past and I am more inclined ...

51N4E: DESIGN IN DIALOGUE. 51N4E. CHAPTER 2

El segundo volumen de la serie 'Capítulos' de la firma de arquitectura 51N4E, con sede en Bruselas, se centra en cómo se pueden dar ...