FRANCESCO DAL CO

This book presents a detailed history of Katsura, the seventeenth-century Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan. Katsura is a pivotal work of Japanese architecture, often described as "the quintessence of Japanese taste." First revealed to the modern world of architecture by Bruno Taut, the great German architect, Katsura stunned and then excited the architectural community of the West during the early twentieth century. Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, pillars of the Modernist establishment, were among those fascinated by Katsura's "modernity." In its orthogonal and modular spaces, devoid of decoration, they saw clear parallels to contemporary Modernism, going so far to proclaim Katsura a "historical" example of modernity. This book documents the palace in detail, combining newly commissioned photographs, detailed drawings, archival material, and historical analysis

Los hechos y la historia. Fotografías de Maria Anguera de Soto.

This second volume of the complete works of the German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers (born in 1926), published to commemorate the Vicenza retrospective of 1998, covers the period from 1991 to 1998. The book is organized in two sections, the first illustrating nineteen designs submitted over recent years to various German competitions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Dusseldorf. The second covers twenty-one projects created over the same period, complete with technical dossier and notes on fixtures and furnishings. The volume ends with a chronology of the complete works. Ungers’s work in the 1990s confirms the originality of the subtly subversive designs which have earned the architect international recognition.

This monograph is one of the most complete and visually attractive publications on world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, presenting 243 of his buildings and projects. Gehry’s provocative works of architecture are constructed through a unique process of improvisation and display extreme creative freedom, which allows him to work without preconceptions and with an extraordinarily open mind. This volume traces Gehry’s career and creative development and includes all of his most significant works, from his senior thesis at the University of Southern California (1954) to a projected skyscraper in New York City (1997). Included are such high-profile projects as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Loyola Law School and the California Aerospace Museum in Los Angeles; the Nationale Nederlanden office building in Prague; and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Francesco Dal Co, arquitecto, enseña Historia de la Arquitectura en el IUAV de Venecia, y ha sido profesor también en diversas universidades y centros de investigación europeos y americanos (Yale, Washington, Los Angeles, Mendrisio...).Desde hace mas de tres decadas ha aportado una contribucion esencial a la renovacion historiografica de la vision de la arquitecturadel siglo XX. Entre sus numerosas publicaciones se cuentan libros sobre la arquitectura alemana de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX, Frank Lloyd Wright, el urbanismo norteamericano, Carlo Scarpa, la arquitectura italiana contemporanea, Tadao Ando, Mario Botta, la nueva arquitectura museistica, Frank Gehry, ademas de una Arquitectura del siglo XX escrita en colaboracion con Manfredo Tafuri. Entre 1988 y 1991 fue director de la seccion de arquitectura de la Bienal de Venecia. Desde 1996dirige la prestigiosa revista de arquitectura Casabella. Hay que destacar, igualmente, su labor editorial al frente de las publicaciones de arquitectura de ediciones Electa