Libros de EUROPA: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

FRANÇOIS BLONDEL. ARCHITECTURE, ERUDITION AND THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession ...

WATERSIDE ARCHITECTURE AMSTERDAM. MAP OF AMSTERDAM

ARCHITECTURE FOR THE EAR. CONSERVATORIUM VAN AMSTERDAM

The Conservatorium of Amsterdam recently relocated into a new building situated on the banks of the IJ river. The building, intelligently designed by Frits ...

PALLADIO: ANDREA PALLADIO NEL V CENTENARIO DELLA NASCITA (1508-2008). ITINERARI PALLADIANI TRA VILLE E

L' ARCHITETTURA DELLE CUPOLE A ROMA 1580-1670

L'indagine archivistica, l'esame delle fonti grafiche, l'osservazione ravvicinata ed il confronto incrociato sono alla base di un testo che analizza i principali temi relativi ...

ABAKANOWICZ: MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ. FATE AND ART. MONOLOGUE

Abakanowicz was born in 1930. She came of age against the tumultuous background of World War II. Today she is revered for her uncompromising ...

A GUIDE TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF LONDON

London has an unrivalled richness of architecture, from its squares and houses to its palaces and churches. This is the only guide to cover ...

CARO: ANTHONY CARO. FIGURATIVE AND NARRATIVE SCULPTURE

Over the past two decades, Anthony Caro (b.1924) has moved on from the steel sculptures with which he achieved international standing to explore the ...

MCLEAN: JOHN MCLEAN

John McLean (b. 1939) has been likened to British art's secret weapon: a self-propelled missile whose long career has been an unfettered exploration of ...

NICHOLSON: WINIFRED NICHOLSON

Luminosity, open space and quick movements characterize Winifred Nicholson's paintings. Flowers on windowsills are a favorite subject, not only for their intrinsic beauty, or ...

ART OF RENAISSANCE FLORENCE 1400-1600

In this absorbing illustrated history, Loren Partridge takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light on its celebrated ...

SAARINEN: EEROO SAARINEN 1910-1961 UN EXPRESIONISTA ESTRUCTURAL

TERRAGNI: GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI EN EL ESPEJO DE LA CIUDAD. ARQUITECTURA RACIONALISTA EN COMO EN EL SIGLO XX

Giuseppe Terragni (1904 -1943), desarrolló su breve pero brillante trayectoria profesional bajo el régimen fascista de Mussolini y sus obras más importantes se circunscriben ...

VILLA PARK IN THE CITY. THE CHABOT MUSEUM AND THE ENVIRONS OF THE MUSEUMPARK VILLAS ROTTERDAM

The Chabot Museum in Rotterdam has occupied a monumental example of Nieuwe Bouwen architecture, the functionalist Dutch arm of the International Modern style, since ...

ENGLISH GARDEN, THE

Garden design in England was entirely reinvented during the eighteenth century. The strictly symmetrical gardens of French Baroque wre replaced by artificial landscapes which ...

LIVED IN LONDON. BLUE PLAQUES AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM

Described by Disraeli as 'a roost for every bird,' London has been home to figures as varied as Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, ...

CASTEL: GASTON CASTEL. UNE AGENCE D ARCHITECTURE AU XX SIECLE

Architecte en chef des Bouches-du-Rhône dans l'entre-deux-guerres, chroniqueur aux«Cahiers du Sud», chef d'atelier à l'Ecole des beaux-arts de Marseille, G. Castel a fondé en ...

NICKL & PARTNER. CREATING UNIQUE HUMAN HABITATS

Hans Nickl's and Christine Nickl-Weller's designs are tailored to human needs. As a result, the architects work follows a simple principle: promoting the users ...

TANGIBLE TRACES. DUTCH ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN IN THE MAKING

How do architecture and design take on meaning in a world that has become uniform as a result of globalisation, standardisation and commercialisation? By ...

BRUNEL: ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL.LIFELINES 1

Isambard Kingdom Brunel achieved what lesser men failed even to contemplate. The famous sone of a famous father, he was acknowledged in his own ...