Individual architects and architectural firms

A timely and important search for architecture's missing womenFor a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared.

Violet Oakley: An Artists Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (18741961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, portraitist and author.

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

Blake, an author living in London, explains that the impetus for this biography of the great Dutch painter came from his own connection in childhood to a painting purchased by his grandmother

John Bramblitt makes his living as a visualartist.

Sir Nigel Thompson walked to school around the bomb craters of the London Blitz--it made him want to build things, rather than knock them down.

Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs.

Este libro, fruto de un trabajo de documentación de la vida y obra del doctor arquitecto Pelayo Llarena Murua, quien fue uno de los pioneros de la arquitectura moderna guatemalteca y del urbanismo, presenta la digitalización del material gráfico inédito (en su gran mayoría) de su archivo personal.

LeRoy Neiman was arguably the world's most recognizable contemporary artist until his passing in June 2012.

A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists   Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O’Keeffe’s husband.

The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany – the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire widespread admiration   Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but her artistic flourishing came late in life.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1889.

A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both   Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies.

Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born ';in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time.

North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s.

Only now can we see Paul Cezanne as the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art.

This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker.

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In words and photographs, the story of visionary architect Addison Mizner* Introduced the Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival styles to southern Florida* Designed and developed the resort town of Boca Raton* Designed the exquisite Everglades Club in Palm BeachAddison Mizner transformed Palm Beach and South Florida with his visionary architecture.

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

Acclaimed photographer Kosti Ruohomaa is widely known for his photographs of hard scrabble Yankees in mid-century Maine.

William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist.

This atlas of architectural design advocates rational as well as humanistic principles in the development of the urban environment.

A groundbreaking account of the role of writing in Michelangelo's artMichelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pieta, and the dome of St.

How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of Rene DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher.

Regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, Bernard Herrmann was responsible for some of the most memorable music in film.

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Renzo Piano is one of the world's greatest living architects and creator of a host of iconic modern buildings, including the Pompidou in Paris, the Menil Collection in Texas, Kansai Airport in Japan, the Shard in London and the new Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Foster + Partners is one of the world's best-known and most influential design firms.

La arquitectura es una forma de escritura, cargada de signos, de yuxtapuestas grafías y de múltiples sentidos.

Proyectar una casa ecologicamente autosuficiente depende del arte de ensamblar las variables de diseno y de construccion sustentable.

Edición a cargo de Guillermo Takano.

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.

Manizales cuenta, en su patrimonio cultural, con obras de reconocido valor arquitectónico, producto de la colonización antioqueña de mediados del siglo XIX; con el conjunto de edificaciones  republicanas más importante de Colombia, construido en la década del veinte del siglo pasado, y también con piezas de especial calidad pertenecientes a los periodos moderno y contemporáneo.

The motivation for this volume arose from a desire to bridge the gap between artists and their audience, facilitating a deeper understanding of the artists purpose and process.

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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.

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"El París de Le Corbusier" analiza las relaciones duales entre la ciudad y el arquitecto: la dialéctica entre la ciudad real - el París donde vivía- y la ciudad ideal - el París abstracto que proyectaba-.

Este libro reúne los principales escritos en los que Walter Gropius expresó sus ideas y motivaciones antes de su emigración a Inglaterra en 1934.

Este libro versa sobre la arquitectura moderna que se construyó en Latinoamérica entre las décadas de 1930 y 1960, y sobre el pensamiento que la sustentó.

Este libro es una reelaboración y ampliación de la 'biografía crítica' de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe publicada por Franz Schulze en 1985 (y traducida al español en 1986), que fue el primer estudio completo de este maestro de la arquitectura moderna.

Nunca en la historia literaria se ha rendido un informe tan cabal, minucioso y penetrante de la personalidad de un poeta como el que nos ha sido legado en estas Conversaciones con Goethe, fruto de la amistad entre dos almas.

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