Libros de PAÍSES: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

OMA . RECENT PROJECT

Includes De Rotterdam, Rothschild Bank, Coolsingel, Fondazione Prada, 24-Hour Museum, Bibliotheque Multimedia a Vocation Regionale, Strelka, Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, Garage Gorky ...

MARGENES ARQUITECTURA Nº 4. NORTEUROPA. (HENNING LARSEN)

NEW ARCADIANS : EMERGING UK ARCHITECTS

Young architects in the UK are making a name for themselves, not just because of the buildings they design, but also because of the ...

HITLER'S BERLIN : ABUSED CITY

From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new ...

MAPPING THE NATION. HISTORY AND CARTOGRAPHY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and ...

CHINA'S DESIGN REVOLUTION. LORRAINE JUSTICE

China is on the verge of a design revolution. A "third generation" of the People's Republic of China that came of age during China's ...

WITTWE: UWE WITTWER. PAINTINGS

Uwe Wittwer (*1954 in Zurich) inquires into and disrupts expectations and viewing habits. The entrancing beauty and sensuousness of his paintings and watercolors lure ...

ARCHITECTURE IN NETHERLANDS. YEARBOOK 2011/2012

For a quarter century now Architecture in the Netherlands has been an indispensable retrospective publication for anyone interested or professionally involved in Dutch architecture. ...

WISSEL: STEFAN WISSEL. LATENT RESOURCES

Stefan Wissel (*1960 in Hamburg) plays an enigmatic, humorous game with colors and shapes. In his sculptural, installation-like works the Düsseldorf-based artist attempts to ...

DRECHSEL: KERSTIN DRECHSEL. HEAT STORAGE SYSTEMS

The watercolor-like oil paintings by Kerstin Drechsel (*1966 in Reinbek near Hamburg) are distinguished by their sensuality and remarkable sense of relaxation. The artist ...

NALINI MALANI. IN SEARCH OF VANISHED BLOOD

Nalini Malani : In Search of Vanished Blood delves into the multifaceted background of a visionary artist whose work holds a mirror to six ...

MILHAZES: BEATRIZ MILHAZES

Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960) derives the basic motifs for her colorful, seductive paintings from the tropical flora and fauna of her homeland, ...

STELLA: FRANK STELLA. CONNECTIONS

The art of Frank Stella (born 1936) transcends the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture. Over the course of a five-decade career the artist ...

NEW HORIZON IN KOREAN ARCHITECTURE

Inspired by the eponymous exhibition shown in Japan in December 2011, and following a recent trend of Korean modern architecture exhibited overseas, this in-depth ...

MILLENIUM OF AMSTERDAM. SPATIAL HISTORY OF A MARVELLOUS CITY

Author Fred Feddes threads together 40 stories about the original landscape of present-day Amsterdam, its reclamation, the changing relationship between water and land, and ...

PRICE: UVEDALE PRICE (1747-1829). DECODING THE PICTURESQUE

Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work ...

VENICE & VITRUVIUS

In about 35-25 B.C.E., the Roman architect Vitruvius produced his encyclopedic ten-book summary of the principles of Hellenistic architecture, De architectura (On Architecture). These ...

AALTO: AALTO AND AMERICA

The internationally renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) created several landmarks of modern design in the United States. The first, the Finland ...

NEOESTUDIO: PIAZZA GARIBALDI. FIRENZE/ ITALY 2009- 2010

Serrata da una cinta muraria medievale ancora intatta, racchiusa allinterno di un impianto urbano in cui i vuoti appaiono ancora prevalenti rispetto alla densità ...

DIVERSERIGHE STUDIO: CASALOGICA. BOLOGNA/ ITALY 2009- 2010

Casalogica, realizzata nella pianura padana della Provincia di Bologna, si colloca in unarea di completamento del tessuto urbano caratterizzato dalla presenza di due edifici ...