Libros de PAÍSES: ARQUITECTURA Y ARTE

JAPANESE STONE GARDENS. ORIGINS, MEANING, FORM

Japanese stone gardens provide tranquil settings where visitors can shed the burdens and stresses of modern existence, satisfy an age-old yearning for solitude and ...

AXI: OME/ USA: DD Nº 32. SPECULAR. BETWEEN PRACTICE AND EDUCATION

Derived from the Latin words axiom and forme, the American based office of Axi:Ome engages in architecture as research: a mode of practice that ...

GLUCKMAN / MAYNER ARCHITECTS: FRAME WORK

Richard Gluckman is an architect who creates spaces comparable to minimalist art. His careful consideration of the basic components of architecture--structure, scale, proportion, material, ...

HOLL: STEVEN HOLL HEART

HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning, Denmark is a new building designed by the renowned American architect Steven Holl. He showed a ...

JEHLE: HASCHER JEHLE ARCHITEKTUR. THOUGHTS AND BUILDINGS

Perhaps most widely known for the spectacular glass cube that is the Stuttgart Museum of Art, the firm of Hascher Jehle has been at ...

MODERSOHN & FREIESLEBEN. THE LIFE OF THINGS

Fifteen years ago Johannes Modersohn and Antje Freiesleben started up an architectural office together in Berlin. Their first work, the spacious platform hall at ...

HOFFMAN: JOSEF HOFFMAN: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

As co-founder of the Secession, theWienerWerkstätte, and the ÖsterreichischerWerkbund, Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) had a decisive influence onmodern Viennese architecture and design. Around 1948 Hoffmann ...

WILEY: WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN? WILLIAM T. WILEY IN RETROSPECT

The retrospective exhibition of the work of William T. Wiley that this publication accompanies is the first to be organized since 1979, when Wiley ...

MAESTRI ITALINI DEL XX SECOLO

MANCHESTER: SHAPING THE CITY

Manchester: Shaping the City demonstrates the constant spirit and originality of Manchester's people and the physical, social and economic improvements, which continue to drive ...

NEW YORK CITY WALKS ARCHITECTURE

City Walks Architecture: New York" deck offers the best way for visitors and adventurous locals to experience the world-renowned architecture of the Big Apple. ...

PARIS CITY WALKS ARCHITECTURE

GRAPHIC EUROPE. AN ALTERNATIVE GUIDE TO 31 EUROPEAN CITIES

"Graphic Europe" is a guidebook to 31 cities in 31 different European countries written and illustrated by graphic designers based in those cities. The ...

OLIMPIC CITIES: 2012 AND THE REMAKING OF LONDON

Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal. ...

PALLADIO'S ROME

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome ...

TUNNARD: LANDSCAPE MODERNISM RENOUNCED. THE CAREER OF CHRISTOPHER TUNNARD 1910-1979

Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became ...

COMPASS AND RULE ARCHITECTURE AS MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE

The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders ...

SARGENT: SARGENT AND THE SEA

As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between ...

HARGREAVES: LANDSCAPE ALCHEMY. THE WORK OF HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES

Hargreaves Associates has been at the forefront of landscape architectural practice since its founding in 1983, creating a narrative approach to landscape architecture that ...

COLLECTION. U.S. ARCHITECTURE

American architecture has created a symbol for itself in the skyscraper. It is a ty¬pology that seems to shout 'Yes we can!', and the ...