Individual architects and architectural firms

Welches sind die drangenden Fragen der Architektur, in Lehre, Forschung und Praxis?

This book presents interdisciplinary research on bamboo in Vietnam, drawing on the anthropology of gesture, ethnobotany and the history of technology.

A biography of Lord Foster, one of the world's foremost architects, written with his full co-operation.

Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos.

From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat a ground-breaking biography that illuminates the life, mind and work of one of the icons of twentieth-century America.

Thinking About Remodeling?

Mediante el analisis de seis pequenas construcciones situadas en archipielagos arquitectonicos radicalmente distantes -el campamento de Ocatillo (F.

I'm sure we can all agree that people drive you crazy sometimes.

Autobiografía científica es una poética crónica vital escrita de forma intermitente y armónicamente desordenada, como un collage donde se mezclan y solapan piezas aparentemente inconexas.

2016 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-Fiction - WinnerDavid Milne is one of Canada's finest artists, a man whose work speaks to the intricate beauty of the world as he experienced it.

Con el objetivo manifiesto de resaltar cómo la escritura biográfica nutre los relatos hagiográficos alrededor del arquitecto como figura autónoma, el libro compilado por Ana María Rigotti y Georg Leidenberger invita a una lectura en doble clave: la biografía se considera no solo como un género de investigación, sino también como un género de escritura.

José Antonio Coderch es el gran olvidado de la arquitectura española, pese a que su obra, a la cabeza de la modernidad, dejó impronta en ciudades como Madrid o Barcelona.

Este libro presenta dos ensayos que buscan ampliar el horizonte de que significa la modernidad y la arquitectura moderna en Colombia, y a la vez precisar su sentido de como acotar el termino arquitectura moderna y las categorias que han sido acogidas en la tradicion de la teoria, la critica y la historia de la arquitectura colombiana.

Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind.

Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.

The Man Cave Book by Mike Yost and Jeff Wilser is a tribute to great and glorious man spaces and the craftsmen behind them.

More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art.

Incorporating recent discoveries about Vincent Van Gogh's life and work, including the only photograph of him as an adult, this updated biography investigates the creativity, successes, and frustrations of one of the world's most famous painters.

En esta obra nuestro autor narra la vida de sus padres en la Espaa anterior a la guerra civil.

This memoir chronicles the life of an artist who began his professional career as a Harvard trained lawyer before discovering the artist within.

Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century.

Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century.

A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet.

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Brought completely up to date, this insightful biography remains "e;a must for any self-respecting Coen fan"e; (Screentrade).

Ediciones Infinito publica por primera vez en español, Hacia una arquitectura (Vers une architecture), libro editado originalmente en París, en 1923, y ampliado en sucesivas ediciones.

War has come to England, and the Furys soldier on Desmond Fury calls himself a working man, but it has been years since he put in a full shift.

To sustain her family, Mrs.

A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and work of the subject, followed by an illustrated appreciation of groundbreaking work.

Ever since she was a little girl growing up in Jamaica, author Sophia Taylor hated her hair.

Edición a cargo de Guillermo Takano.

Este libro reivindica las figuras de Le Corbusier, Josep Lluís Sert y Paul Lester Wiener en los planes de construcción de la ciudad de Bogotá.

Es la obra no de un teórico, sino de una personalidad que verificó en la práctica la validez de sus ideas.

La Ciudad el Futuro es posiblemente, la obra fundacional del planeamiento urbano y rural modernos.

Antoni Gaudi s'ha convertit en una icona que interessa permanentment, encara que cada cop es repeteixin fets coneguts de fa molts anys.

From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.

'Compelling.

La biografía de los más célebres arquitectos recorre las páginas de Vidas Construidas, una galería de personajes, veinte retratos-relatos que narran historias edificadas por clientes osados y artistas aventureros.

The 1989 student massacre in Lubumbashi, Zaire under the brutal rule of dictator President Mobutu Sese Seko was almost the end for brothers Michel, Fabian and Aliston Lwamba.

A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities.

Este libro tiene como propósito reconsiderar la influencia de Le Corbusier en la formación arquitectónica y académica del autor.