Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere.
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.
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.
La escala como variable proyectual es abordada desde la perspectiva ejemplar de Louis Kahn, quien retoma la idea del pasado como amigo para aprender la lección de la historia, recuperando pautas que habían quedado olvidadas por el funcionalismo racionalista y que ahora redefinen, por ejemplo, la monumentalidad arquitectónica como necesidad.
The book presents the history of Polish architecture and architects in the years 1944-1989, focusing on selected issues, including both the development of architecture itself and the conditions of practicing architecture in the socialist country.
Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel.
This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.
This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Polish modern architect Jerzy Soltan's work including his designs, theory, and teachings in Poland and America based on extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former students.
Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.
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.
A 100 AÑOS DE LA BAUHAUSCon motivo de las celebraciones mundiales que se realizaran durante este año para festejar dicho acontecimiento, nos orgullecemos en presentarles este libro reedición del editado en 1958 por esta editorial, un valioso documento histórico donde encontraran el pensamiento del fundador de la famosa escuela en varios artículos y conferencias durante sus tres diferentes vidas, como el mismo las llama, la de Alemania donde funda en 1919 la Bauhaus en Dessau, la de Inglaterra durante la segunda guerra y la de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, en la Universidad de Harvard.
Through the work of the Italian architect, theorist and historian Paolo Portoghesi (1931-2023), this book offers a new perspective on postmodern architecture, showing the agency of other spheres of knowledge history, politics and media in the making of postmodern architectural discourse.
The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.
Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo's personal account of his development as an artistA leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century-an artist, designer, and theorist whose work changed the course of modern art.
A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historiansThis is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century.
The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking.
Constructivist and sculptor Naum Gabo's personal account of his development as an artistA leading exponent of the modern art movement known as Constructivism, Russian-born Naum Gabo was one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century-an artist, designer, and theorist whose work changed the course of modern art.
Es necesario dejar huella del transcurrir de la arquitectura en Colombia, mostrar todas las corrientes que dejaron testimonio en la imagen de nuestras ciudades, volver a los pasos de los pioneros de la arquitectura que "forjaron y dejaron herencia urbana y arquitectónica".
A striking account of Vasari's career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian RenaissanceVasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today.
Esta publicación aborda una retrospectiva de los apuntes y croquis de viaje de Germán Samper, uno de los arquitectos colombianos más reconocidos nacional e internacionalmente, autor de emblemáticas edificaciones y conjuntos modernos de la capital y del país, varios de las cuales han sido ya declarados como Bienes de Interés Cultural.
A striking account of Vasari's career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian RenaissanceVasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today.
Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects.
Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects.
At the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to mobilize a new public imagination toward a more just and equitable urbanization.
Wie innovative Architektur das Leben auf dem Land neu definiertLändliche Architektur hat enormes Potenzial – dieses hochwertige Architektur- und Fachbuch zeigt, wie sie modern interpretiert werden kann.
At the intersection of architecture, art, public culture, and political theory, Socializing Architecture urges architects and urbanists to mobilize a new public imagination toward a more just and equitable urbanization.
Gaston Lelarge es, sin duda alguna, uno de los profesionales más importantes en la cultura arquitectónica nacional, y quizás el más representativo de los constructores del periodo republicano en el país.
Wie innovative Architektur das Leben auf dem Land neu definiertLändliche Architektur hat enormes Potenzial – dieses hochwertige Architektur- und Fachbuch zeigt, wie sie modern interpretiert werden kann.
This book addresses the work of architect John Dalton (1927-2007), an important voice in mid-century modernism in Australia whose work, despite his being exhibited and published internationally and also winning several awards for his designs, is woefully little known.
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.
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.
Enric Miralles (1955-2000) es considerado una de las figuras clave para entender la arquitectura española reciente y muchos de los temas recurrentes que hoy se manejan en la práctica y la teoría arquitectónicas contemporáneas.
Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years.
La construcción de edificios está especialmente implicada en las emisiones de dióxido de carbono, y es conveniente que su diseño y construcción sea un factor primordial en la ofensiva por mitigar los efectos del cambio climático.
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.
