Libros de PAÍSES: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN LATIN AMERICA "ART, TECHNOLOGY, AND UTOPIA"

Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes ...

NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE. 1930-2002

El Museo Guggenheim Bilbao y La Fábrica coeditan Niki de Saint Phalle, el catálogo de la exposición homónima. Una completa retrospectiva de la obra ...

BBPR: PALAZZO DELLE POSTE, TELEGRAFI TE. TI. ALL'E42

ESCOMBRO

En Escombro, el artista multidisciplinar Arturo Hernández Alcázar construye esculturas y ensamblajes precarios temporales a base de objetos domésticos desechados, distintos materiales de archivo ...

CASA O' GORMAN 1929

Juan O'Gorman se inició como arquitecto de manera espectacular a los 24 años de edad, con el proyecto de una casa que comenzó a ...

FRANK GEHRY, ARQUITECTO "EL MODERNISTA CONTEMPORÁNEO"

Repaso fotografico de la obra del arquitecto

SOBEK: WERNER SOBEK: LIGHT WORKS

Werner Sobek is one of the leading engineers and structural designers of our time. His works have been awarded numerous distinctions and enjoy the ...

CLERC: ALEXANDRE CLERC

Alexandre Clerc, the young Fribourg architect, and his team have already produced a notable number of high-quality buildings: small school buildings, for instance for ...

BELGIAN ARCHITECTS AND THEIR HOUSES II

Almost all architecture is designed on commission for a client, and the architect's design must always bend to the wishes or demands of that ...

LE CORBUSIER: WHAT MOVES US? LE CORBUSIER ANS ASGER JORN IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one the most influential architects of the 20th century. In the Scandinavian countries, his influence is arguably most pronounced in ...

URBAN PLANNIG IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. COLONIAL AND POST- COLONIAL PLANNING CULTURES

Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This ...

LE CORBUSIER: LE CORBUSIER AND THE GRASS LAMP

The truth is, decorative art is equipment, beautiful equipment," Le Corbusier, L'Art decoratif d'aujourd'hui This book traces the history of an encounter between a ...

LACROIX CHESSEX: DE AEDIBUS 56

In 2013, Hieronyme Lacroix and Simon Chessex produced a student housing development close to the Geneva railway lines that represents exemplary urban architecture, with ...

HABITAT MAROCAIN DOCUMENTS. DYNAICS BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL HOUSING

The Habitat Marocain housing project was built in Casablanca between 1954-56 by two Swiss architects, Jean Hentsch (1921-84) and Andre Studer (1926-2007). The complex ...

HOUSE OF SWITZERLAND. A DICTIONARY OF ELEMENTS

The House of Switzerland is a relocatable building serving as Switzerland's official visitor centre at major international events. Its operational premiere were the 2014 ...

KRISCHANITZ: SUPERBLOCK WINTERTHUR. A PROJECT WITH ARCHITECT KRISCHANITZ

The Superblock in the Swiss city of Winterthur is the winning design for the conversion of a former industrial site in today's heart of ...

KAZI: FAWARD KAZI. ETH ZURICH BUILDING LEE

ETH Zurich's new building LEE is an extraordinary project from both an urban planning and an architectural design perspective. Located on a slope above ...

NEXTLAND. RECENT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRIA

At the beginning of the 1990s, European landscape architecture started to appear on the international radar with the Parc de la Villette in Paris ...

GUÍA DE ARQUITECTURA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

Esta segunda edición actualizada reúne más de 150 obras arquitectónicas, construidas desde principios del siglo XX hasta la actualidad, ubicadas en cinco zonas de ...

ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO 1900-2010. 2 VOLS.

From the iconic modernism of Luis Barragán to the brightly colored postmodern forms of Ricardo Legoretta, this important historical document deals with the plurality ...