Kenneth Frampton

NUEVA EDICIÓN REVISADA Y AMPLIADADesde su primera edición en 1980, laHistoria crítica de la arquitectura modernade Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografia academica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna. En esta cuarta edicion, el autor ha añadido un importante capitulo final que indaga en los efectos de la globalizacion en la arquitectura contemporanea de los ultimos años, en el fenomeno de los arquitectos estrella y en como las practicas de todo el mundo han dirigido su foco de atencion hacia los problemas de la sostenibilidad y del habitat.

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.

A lo largo de 40 años, el despacho de Francisco J. Serrano ha construido un vasto conjunto de obras que reflejan tanto la madurez de su lenguaje como la solidez de su oficio, diseñando con igual versatilidad edificios corporativos y grandes desarrollos de vivienda, la ampliacion de la Universidad Iberoamericana y la nueva Terminal del Aeropuerto de la ciudad de Mexico. Este libro recoge los hitos mas significativos de su trayectoria.

Este libro constituye la recopilación más extensa de la obra de Álvaro Siza publicada hasta la fecha: desde sus primeras obras en Matosinhos (restaurante Boavista o piscinas de las mareas), pasando por su experiencia europea en viviendas (Berlin y La Haya), hasta su mas recientes y celebradas obras publicas como el rectorado de la Universidad de Alicante, el Jardin de Santo Domingo de Bonaval, el Museo de Arte Contemporanea y la facultad de periodismo (todas ellas en Santiago de Compostela), hasta el pabellon portugues de la Expo 98 de Lisboa o la Fundacion Serralves en Oporto. Un extenso texto de Kenneth Frampton junto a un prefacio de Francesco Dal Co y un homenaje de Fernando Tavora, preceden la parte central dedicada a la obra, parte en la que se intercalan textos del propio Alvaro Siza. Encuadernacion: Tela.

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.

This new title in the Modern Masters series is dedicated to the distinguished American architect and includes an introductory essay by Kenneth Frampton, one of the most prestigious names in the field of architecture history. This complete monograph presents 89 of Meiers buildings, documenting the principal stages of Meiers career in chronological order, from his early private homes and residential buildingssuch as the two large complexes of Twin Parks, Bronx, New York and the Bronx Development Centerto recent major projects in the United States and in several European countries, including Italy. Among the well-known works in this volume are the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the church of Dives in Misericordia, Rome. In the early 1970s, Meier was one of the New York Five, an informal group of East Coast architects who shared a preference for new and original contributions to the modern tradition and shaped an alternative to the gray architecture that dominated highrise East Coast buildings at the time.

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 hacen de este libro un texto indispensable dentro de la bibliografia sobre la arquitectura de este siglo

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.