Libros de ARQUITECTURA Y VIVIENDA

PROYECTAR LA MEMORIA

Los seminarios-taller Proyectar la Memoria, que se vienen celebrando desde el año 2012 en la Escuela de Patrimonio Histórico del Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural ...

DUCHAMP: A BIOGRAPHY

First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins' biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has ...

WALKER & GILLETTE, AMERICAN ARCHITECTS: FROM CLASSICISM THROUGH MODERNISM (1900-1950S)

The work of Walker & Gillette, one of the leading architectural firms of the twentieth century, is documented with an extensive text and over ...

JAPANESE EROTIC ART. THE HIDDEN WORLD OF SHUNGA

Japanese erotic art, or shunga, has a long history, with thousands of high- quality paintings, prints, handscrolls and illustrated books produced by artists both ...

XINGJIAN: GAO XINGJINA. PAINTER OF THE SOUL

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000, novelist Gao Xingjian is also an artist whose paintings are exhibited worldwide. Born in China ...

DWEK: OLIVIER DWEK. SELECTED WORKS

Features projects in private houses and a museum, in Belgium and Greece. Ten remarkable projects by the young architect Olivier Dwek. Of English origin, ...

SCHINKEL: KARL FREIEDRICH SCHINKEL.LATE PROJECTS

Text in English & German. Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda Castle in ...

HELENE & OLIVIER LEMPEREUR. ARCHITECTS/ DESIGNERS NEW WORKS

The third monograph on this exceptional couple, charting their interior design and architecture projects This is a fantastic new monograph, the third published by ...

LANDSCAPE AS A CABINET OF CURIOSITIES . CONVERSATIONS WITH GUNTHER VOGT

Inspired by the architects' tradition of passing on experience in conversation form, this paperback book provides insights into the ideas, methods, and memories of ...

TAEWON JANG. STAINED GROUND

Ominous, overwhelming, and harshly lit at night'Korean photographer Taewon Jang (1976 in Seoul) puts industrial plants at the center of his work. He documented ...

DENSITY & ATMOSPHERE. ON FACTORS RELATING TO BUILDING DENSITY IN THE EUROPEAN CITY

This book offers a thorough study of the relationship between the characteristics of construction density and the ensuing atmospheres, distribution of uses and their ...

RAMCKE: ROLF RAMCKE. BAUTEN UND PROJEKTE DER 60ER UND 90ER JAHRE

Hannover, die deutsche Vorzeigestadt des Städtebaus der Nachkriegszeit, in den frühen 1960er Jahren: Ein junger Architekt - Rolf Ramcke - tritt in die Entwurfsabteilung ...

FUNCTION FOLLOWS STRATEGY.

In past years, architects have been confronted with a changed market, changed sets of tasks and also new requirements. Which strategies can they adopt ...

TRANSFORMING CHINES CITIES

The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China's reform process and for the world ...

BOOK OF TREES. VISUALIZING BRANCHES OF KNOWLEDGE

Our critically acclaimed bestseller Visual Complexity was the first in-depth examination of the burgeoning field of information visualization. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous historical ...

LE CORBUSIER/ OUBRERIE: ARCHITECTURE WITH AND WITHOUT LE CORBUSIER

Architecture with and Without Le Corbusier documents two architectural masterpieces: the Church at Firminy and The Miller House. The church is a late work ...

DPA Nº 30. ARQUITECTURA PAULISTA

LE CORBUSIER E OLIVETTI. LA USINE VERTE PER IL CENTRO DI CALCOLO ELETTRONICO

Agli inizi del 1960, in un'Italia in piena ripresa economica Adriano Olivetti decide di costruire il Centro di calcolo elettronico, la fabbrica destinata alla ...

PROCESS. MATERIALS AND REPRESENTATION IN ARCHITECTURE

This book examines the interrelationship of representational methods and material systems as fundamental drivers of the design process. Identifying four primary categories of representational ...

INSIDE / OUTSIDE

'Living is not something that only refers to the private space, but also to the public one,' says Ugo La Pietra. Since the 60s, ...