Desde su primera edición en 1980, la Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna de Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografía academica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna. En esta quinta edicion ampliamente revisada y actualizada, el autor ha añadido una nueva y extensa seccion que explora al detalle la evolucion del Movimiento Moderno en la arquitectura en todo el mundo a finales del siglo xx y principios del xxi. En ella, se examinan las diversas formas en que los arquitectos no solo responden a los contextos geograficos, climaticos, materiales y culturales, sino que siguen tambien distintas lineas de enfoque en relacion a la topografia, la morfologia, la sostenibilidad y la forma civica.
Desde su primera edición en 1980, la Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna de Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografía académica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna. En esta quinta edicion ampliamente revisada y actualizada, el autor ha añadido una nueva y extensa seccion que explora al detalle la evolucion del Movimiento Moderno en la arquitectura en todo el mundo a finales del siglo xx y principios del xxi. En ella, se examinan las diversas formas en que los arquitectos no solo responden a los contextos geograficos, climaticos, materiales y culturales, sino que siguen tambien distintas lineas de enfoque en relacion a la topografia, la morfologia, la sostenibilidad y la forma civica.
Desde su primera aparición en 1980, este estudio sobre la arquitectura del siglo XX y sus orígenes es ya un clásico en su género. Tras una revisión y ampliación del propio autor en 1975, se amplía de nuevo, actualizando la historia y analizando areas y temas que hoy tienen significacion. Los ultimos capitulos, enteramente nuevos, centran su atencion en cuatro paises en los que se ha venido produciendo una cultura arquitectonica completa: Finlandia, Francia, España y Japon, junto a una revision y ampliacion de la bibliografia, que hacen de este libro un texto indispensable dentro de la bibliografia sobre la arquitectura de este siglo. Encuadernacion: Rustica.
This book includes a vast collection of descriptions, drawings and photographs by Vincent Mentzel about the project, as well as a writing by Siza Vieira himself and other texts. The book also includes an analysis of the bathers course by Pedro Vieira de Almeida, as well as testimonies of the architects Diogo Seixas Lopes, Manuel Aires Mateus, Michel Toussaint, Joao Manoel Gomes Da Silva, Lui´s Urbano, Diogo Seixas Lopes and Pedro Vieira de Almeida.A´lvaro Siza was the 1992 winner of The Pritzker Architecture Priz
Fumihiko Maki's many buildings are characterized by a commitment to the ongoing project of Modernism as well as a humanist concern for the experience of the people who inhabit them. Both a thoughtful writer and a prolific builder, Maki was a founding member of the Metabolists, a highly influential group of Japanese architects in the 1960s who redefined how designers thought about large-scale urban planning. His own work, while sometimes vast in scale, is consistently responsive to the individual user. His 50-year exploration and expansion of the Modernist vocabulary has resulted in buildings that are technologically inventive, deceptively simple, and which carefully balance lightness and dignity. This book contains over 40 projects, extensively illustrated with drawings, photos, models, sketches, diagrams and computer renderings. These include the Spiral Building in Tokyo, the Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium, the Kaze-No-Oka Crematorium in Nakatsu, and a tower currently under construction for the World Trade Center site in New York. The projects are organized roughly chronologically, but are also discussed thematically. Some projects, including Hillside Terrace, a mixed-use complex that Maki was involved with for almost 30 years, are examined not just at the moment after construction but as places that evolve over time. Buildings of every scale are included, from a 150 m2 floating pavilion to a 200,000 m2 college campus. The range of projects included, from early, experimental works to projects currently under construction in Canada, Switzerland, Japan, and the US give the reader a chance to examine in full the development of one of the most revered architects working today.
José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat nació en 1913 y murió en 1984 en Barcelona. Estas fechas delimitan su vida y su obra. Pero el pensamiento que destila su arquitectura, de gran coherencia interna, supera esos límites temporales, su propia idiosincrasia y el reducido marco geográfico en que se desarrolló, y ofrece una reflexión sobre la arquitectura desde un sentimiento ético. Esa profundidad implícita sea quizá una de las razones por las que, aun siendo reconocido como el más importante arquitecto catalán posterior a la II Guerra Mundial, su obra esté muy poco difundida. Este número de 2G presenta una colección de casas construidas por José Antonio Coderch. Son 1 + 10 casas, ya que la casa Ugalde, la gran obra que marca el inicio de su madurez, destaca sobre todas las demás. En ella Coderch no sólo abraza definitivamente el lenguaje de la arquitectura moderna, matizado por su respeto al contexto, sino que pone a punto su propia concepción espacial de casa en la naturaleza. Es el prototipo experimental de las siguientas casas que, al ordenar esas intuiciones, ya no repiten los trazos libres de la primera.
Labour, Work and Architecture An anthology of writings by esteemed architectural critic Kenneth Frampton.Kenneth Frampton An anthology of writings by esteemed architectural critic Kenneth Frampton, containing his most influential essays from the last 35 years Includes Frampton's seminal critiques, reviews and theoretical and historical essays, along with three previously unpublished texts Contains his influential essay 'Towards a Critical Regionalism', as well as writings on EI Lissitzky, Louis Kahn, Constructivism and many other architects and movements Presented in chronological order within three sections - Theory, History and Criticism This anthology of writings by the architectural critic Kenneth Frampton brings together his most influential essays from the last 35 years. The essays focus on twentieth-century architecture, dealing with diverse themes and movements, built works and the architects responsible for these buildings. The writings are presented in clear chronological order within three sections - Theory, History, and Criticism - which together serve to identify modern architecture in its broader cultural and historical context. The compilation assimilates early critical reviews from the 1960s and 70s analysing contemporary buildings, as well as lengthier pieces covering architecture and the ideological circumstances in which buildings are produced. As a collection, Labour, Work and Architecture is an essential document in the historiography of twentieth-century architecture, composed by a highly respected and readable scholar committed to the nuanced understanding and real improvement of our built environment.
The 20th century was remarkably fertile ground for residential architecture in the US, producing such icons of modern building as the Greene brothers' Gamble House in Pasadena (1908), Eliel Saarinen's 1929 residence at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Michael Graves' neo-classical villa in New Jersey. These are among the 21 masterpieces of American 20th-century residential architecture presented in this illustrated volume, a condensed edition of this previously published title. Colour photographs are accompanied by a text that explores each house in depth and discusses its place in the progression of American architecture, its role in the architect's oeuvre and its broader relationship to the history of 20th-century American cultural movements.
