Individual architects and architectural firms

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.

Identified as "e;the first designer of what would become known as Swedish Modern"e; by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.

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.

Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice lifts the curtain to unveil how eleven world-leading design studios integrate technology (such as computational design, BIM, and digital fabrication) as part of their day-to-day design exploration and delivery.

Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice lifts the curtain to unveil how eleven world-leading design studios integrate technology (such as computational design, BIM, and digital fabrication) as part of their day-to-day design exploration and delivery.

First published in 1974, Masks and Facades paints an authentic picture of John Vanbrugh as a man of character, talent, wit and charm, moving in an age where patronage held the key to worldly advancement.

The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius's activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founder's contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934 and 1937.

The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

First published in 1974, Masks and Facades paints an authentic picture of John Vanbrugh as a man of character, talent, wit and charm, moving in an age where patronage held the key to worldly advancement.

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.

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.

This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1830-1914.

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 artist's 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.

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

"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.

In an age of glossy architectural visualizations and slick photography, today's media is saturated with images of projects mummified in their ideal, untouched, and unused state.

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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The second edition of Modern Construction Envelopes was originally based on the two books by Andrew Watts, Modern Construction Roofs and Modern Construction Facades .

LP architektur has created a richly varied body of work in the ten years it has existed.