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Una introducción y una visión directa de los arquitectos contemporáneos más destacados de todo el mundo. Un retrato de la variada naturaleza de la arquitectura de nuestros días. Una reflexión que permitirá al lector obtener y desarrollar sus propias ideas sobre los arquitectos tratados y, a menudo, mitificados. ¿Alguna vez ha deseado disponer de información sobre los arquitectos contemporáneos más influyentes del mundo sin tener que leerse páginas y páginas de texto especializado? Este libro, escrito por tres periodistas expertos en arquitectura, pone en su lugar a los arquitectos más importantes y provocativos del panorama mundial (tanto a los veteranos ya establecidos como a los más radicales). Con una doble página para cada arquitecto o grupo de arquitectos, una de ellas con fotografías a color; con un diseño claro y atractivo, y organizados por orden alfabético, esta obra echa por tierra las complicadas clasificaciones arquitectónicas habituales.

Renzo Piano is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1998, Piano is certainly one of the most interesting and acclaimed contemporary architects. Since his first building, the Centre Pompidou in Paris produced in collaboration with architect Sir Richard Rogers, he has realised a great number of attractive buildings all over the world, always creating new languages that combine a deep concern of the topography of the site, a clear comprehension of the brief and an amazing interest in the experimentation of new technologies. In Volume Five, Peter Buchanan shows, as he has in the previous four volumes, that Piano follows no fashions of form or theory, nor is he limited to a personal idiom. Instead he concerns himself with the specifics and potential of a particular situation and moment, meeting the challenges of the programme, often pushing technology beyond its present limits, and always responding sensitively to the urban fabric of the building's site. The first four volumes of the Complete Works have traced Piano's career from his early collaborations with Rogers and Peter Rice, and the formation of the Building Workshop in 1981, to the completion of Kansai Airport in 1995. This fifth volume will include Piano's latest buildings, which illustrate the continuing complexity of his work. Chief amongst these are the Nasher Collection in Dallas, the Woodruff Arts Centre Expansion in Atlanta, USA, Maison Hermes in Tokyo, Japan, and the Aurora Place Office and Apartment Towers in Sydney, Australia. As before, the book will also include 'work in progress', to demonstrate the full diversity of the Building Workshop's activities. This includes the London Bridge Tower, UK.

"The array of buildings by Renzo Piano is staggering in scope and comprehensive in the diversity of scale, material, and form. He is truly an architect whose sensibilities represent the widest range of this and earlier centuries." Such was the description of Renzo Piano given by the Pritzker Prize jury citation as they bestowed the prestigious award on him in 1998.Whereas some architects have a signature style, what sets Piano apart is that he seeks simply to apply a coherent set of ideas to new projects in extraordinarily different ways. "One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again," Piano says. "Like a movie director doing a love story, a Western, or a murder mystery, a new world confronts an architect with each project." This explains why it takes more than a superficial glance to recognize Piano''s fingerprints on such varied projects as the Pompidou Center in Paris (197177), the Kansai airport in Osaka, Japan (199094), and the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, New Caledonia (199398). This stunning monograph, illustrated by photographs, sketches, and plans, covers Piano''s career to date.

Peut-être que s’il n’avait pas revu la maison de son enfance, un soir par hasard, à l’aube de ses soixante ans, Paul Andreu n’aurait jamais écrit ce livre. Il aura fallu qu’il repasse par cette ville

A spectacular visual biography of one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. By Phaidon Editors, introductory essay by Jean-Louis Cohen A spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier (18871965), one of Modernism''s most influential architects, urban planners, and theorists Approximately 2,000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, feature his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches, archival photographs, and personal correspondence Rarely seen photographs and correspondence shed new light on Le Corbusiers relationships with Josephine Baker, Eileen Gray, Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouve, and many others Insightful introductory essay by Frances most authoritative architectural historian and critic, Jean-Louis Cohen, and incisive chapter introductions by highly regarded Le Corbusier scholar Tim Benton The same grandly oversized format as Warhol "Giant Size" Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design. Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, the Parliament Building in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force in the world of architecture and design, while his elegant bearing, typified by his round black eyeglasses, which are still today a signature look for architects around the world, helped cast him as an heroic figure out of Ayn Rand''s novel The Fountainhead. Drawing on an array of archival material, including sketches, photographs, and correspondences, Le Corbusier Le Grand depicts in roughly chronological order not only the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, but also the major events, people, and forces that shaped the life of an artist who continues to fascinate those in and outside the architectural world.

Found in our archives, the Black''s Sketchbooks are a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. Each book contains pen sketches of iconic English and Scottish cities and counties. There are also some books on famous Continental cities such as Paris and Venice. The result is a charming series of books that present a fascinating look at British and European locations as they were almost a century ago. This title presents a delightful look at Canterbury as it was in 1915.

La nueva publicación de Ediciones ARQ es resultado de una larga investigación emprendida por la arquitecta chilena Sandra Iturriaga, quien presenta un conjunto de 25 proyectos realizados por Cristián Valdes entre 1963 y 2007 a traves de una serie de dibujos especialmente producidos en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile . Ellos son acompañados planos originales y textos donde el arquitecto hace un repaso de las experiencias que marcaron su produccion arquitectonica, ligada a un sistema de principios propio y original: su paso por las escuelas de arquitectura en Santiago y Valparaiso, los años en la fabrica de muebles de su padre y la experiencia del proyecto de titulo guiado por Alberto Cruz aparecen como origen de las leyes y reflexiones directrices de la obra de Valdes. El libro Cristian Valdes, la medida de la arquitectura se publica con el apoyo de Infodema S.A. y Rosen One.

Since the age of ten, when he first saw the monumental concrete gymnasium designed by Kenzo Tange for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Kengo Kuma (b. 1954) has aspired to create architecture that utilizes materials in an expressive manner. Despite his early fascination with concrete, Kuma has become better known for his unusual handling of glass, wood, and stone in works as diverse as private residences, Buddhist temples, and art museums. With an acute sensitivity to maximizing a building's setting, whether urban or rural, Kuma has created such celebrated structures as the Tokyo headquarters of Louis Vuitton, adobe housing for an ancient wooden Buddha, and an observatory that is sunk into a seaside hill like Michael Heizer's DOUBLE NEGATIVE.

Coincidiendo con la época de mayor efervescencia del accionismo vienés de finales de la década de 1960 y principios de la de 1970, los inicios deCoop Himmelb[l]auestán vinculados a una serie de acciones que reflejan la esencia del pensamiento arquitectonico de este despacho vienes: relacionar la arquitectura con formas de operar ajenas a la disciplina y vinculadas al mundo del arte y de la musica. Este discurso conceptual, impregnado de anhelos artisticos, se tradujo a unas obras arquitectonicas que pretendian ir mas alla de los conceptos establecidos en la disciplina y huir de los modos de percepcion definidos por la costumbre -como, por ejemplo, la perspectiva central- para fomentar una percepcion fragmentada mas acorde con lo que ellos entendian que era la sociedad contemporanea.Himmelblau no es ningun colorpresenta por primera vez en castellano una seleccion de textos escritos por Wolf D. Prix en el contexto de su trabajodesarrollado en el despacho Coop Himmelb[l]au entre 1968 y 2005. La seleccion, realizada por Thomas Kramer, se ha basado en la edicion alemana de los textos completos y recoge escritos programaticos, aforismos, entrevistas, conferencias y otros textos relacionados con proyectos propios o sobre colegas de la disciplina.El conjunto nos ofrece una perspectiva de los aspectos teoricos y artisticos que han marcado el trabajo arquitectonico del equipo vienes, y no solo permite entender cuales son lasbases conceptualesde su obra, sino tambien poner de relieve algunas de laspreocupacionesque han marcado la trayectoria de Coop Himmelb[l]au, como la importancia del espacio publico en la ciudad o la dificil relacion de la arquitectura con el poder economico. Los textos, en definitiva, reflejan una voluntad no acomodaticia respecto a la estetica y una vision tremendamente critica respecto a la ciudad y las condiciones de produccion contemporaneas vinculadas al mero rendimiento economico.

Between 1933 and 1934 the visionary architect, designer, engineer and philosopher Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) built three models for his Dymaxion Car; an automobile that was considered the most efficient of its time due to its meticulous design, based on the laws of aerodynamics. This book relates the history of the first three models for the Dymaxion Car, as well as the production process of Dymaxion #4, a new prototype built true to the original. This new prototype was produced by the architect Norman Foster and launched on the street in 2010. Spanish/English

João Vilanova Artigas (Curitiba 1915−São Paulo 1985), arquitecto brasileño maestro de la llamada ’Escuela de São Paulo’, adoptó el hormigón armado como lenguaje plástico y constructivo a partir de fi

This exhibition, which was held at Ivorypress Art+Books in September 2009, featured 200 drawings by Norman Foster. This catalogue includes the exhibited drawings as well as texts of a series of paneled discussions which were mediated by Lus Fern¡ndez Galiano, with contributions from Norman Foster, Richard Long, Deyan Sudjic, Not Vital, Ricky Burdett, Jordi Gual, Saskia Sassen, Stefan Behling and Herbert Girardet. This catalogue is the first in a series devoted to architecture relating to art, sustainability and economy.

Lo que ofrece este texto es una lectura, una interpretación de una obra de arquitectura; en particular, la de un autor —el Pabellón representativo que el arquitecto Mies van der Rohe proyectó y const