Individual Architect 12

Golconde is an astonishing architectural accomplishment. With technical finesse and extraordinary craft, it offers a living testament to the original modernist credo - architecture as the manifest u……続きを見る

This edited collection provides an up-to-date account, by a group of well-informed and globally positioned authors, of recently implemented projects, public policies and business activities in Open ……続きを見る

Pur essendo un mostro di intelligenza, ironia, e creatività, Ettore Sottsass non è mai riuscito a diventare un mostro sacro. Né si è mai adoperato in tal senso, come documentano questi testi. Le dat……続きを見る

**'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN 'A marvel: a monument to human be……続きを見る

"A thoroughly invigorating, tightly focused piece of Chekhovian drama, wherein chatter about work and art . . . fail to mask deep vulnerability."-Chicago Tribune A play about Frank Lloyd Wright set ……続きを見る

This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers,……続きを見る

Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He……続きを見る

Originally published in 1956, this book provides a non-technical analysis of contemporary building by on the of the world’s greatest architects. Published a few years after the end of WW2, it was an……続きを見る

OODA is a Portuguese architecture collective, now celebrating 10 years of practice. Based in Porto with experience gained internationally in notable offices, such as OMA-Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid ……続きを見る

Notre-Dame de Chartres et la Sagrada Família sont deux modes de réalisation de la même idée: la Jérusalem céleste. Il y a des similitudes profondes entre les deux temples, avec des messages intrinsè……続きを見る

Vacant Spaces NY begins gathering the incomplete data available and documenting vacant spaces in New York City. Organized from large to small, general to specific, vacancy in the United States to ca……続きを見る

How Richard Riemerschmid’s designs of everydayーbut “extraordinary”ーobjects recalibrate our understanding of modernism. At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid……続きを見る

Geometric Taxonomy gets closer to the geometries of Carlos Ferrater and OAB that are present in timeless architecture, those that are explicit in the great treatises, those that dazzled us with “the……続きを見る

"As a kid who wanted to be an architect you could either make clay shapes, drag pieces of driftwood into vague boxesーor put together Meccano cages. I followed the last option and surely so did Jose……続きを見る

«Ho fatto il partigiano nelle valli bergamasche, ho preparato carte d’identità false per gli ebrei, ho venduto armi, ho bocciato le poesie di un giovane Pasolini, ho fatto da guida a Le Corbusier, h……続きを見る

Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very……続きを見る

The book submits that a deep study of legacy material artifacts, through the lens of contemporary digital design can constitute a valuable bridge between design history and contemporary creative pra……続きを見る

Geometric Taxonomy gets closer to the geometries of Carlos Ferrater and OAB that are present in timeless architecture, those that are explicit in the great treatises, those that dazzled us with “the……続きを見る

The object as solid, having three dimensions, is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift; a reconceiving of how the architectural object is produced and experienced, changing the ver……続きを見る

Einfamilienhäuser, Familiengräber, Inneneinrichtungen, Platzgestaltungen, Kirchen, Hotels, Pavillons und Kriegerdenkmale – Alfons Fritz (1900–1933) war ein Architekt, der sich jeder Bauaufgabe stell……続きを見る

The writers and designers in this collection are among the most thoughtful architects, artists, landscape architects, and theorists working today. The editors organized these essays and works of art……続きを見る

Compiles ON-A work philosophy: a constant search for innovative ad hoc solutions for each project, using the most updated technologies and design research. This book exposes and collects the innovat……続きを見る

A critical appropriation of Brutalism in the crisis conditions of today. The Robin Hood Gardens public-housing estate in East London, completed in 1972, was designed by Alison and Peter Smithson as ……続きを見る

MAD works in forward-looking environments developing futuristic architecture based on a contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature. All of MAD's projects - from residential complexe……続きを見る

Architects, authors, and photographers – different viewpoints on a dense and complex building in Paris’s 20th arrondissement. Located just above the city’s eight-lane ring road, this “calm block” wa……続きを見る

New Geometric Systems: Jekabs Zvilna and Integrative Form-Languages surveys the graphic and three-dimensional work of Waterloo Architecture professor and mid-twentieth-century designer Jekabs Zvilna……続きを見る

En la primera parte de este libro se esboza una semblanza de la vida y obra de Walter Weberhofer (1923-2002), ubicándolo en los contextos históricos nacional e internacional. En las siguientes cuatr……続きを見る

Héctor Velarde no ha sido solo un personaje emblemático en la historia de la arquitectura peruana; también lo ha sido para la historia de la Carrera de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Lima. Hemos ……続きを見る

AOT no es solo una sigla para la arquitectura peruana contemporánea; durante más de cuarenta años probablemente fue la más organizada oficina de arquitectos que tuvo el Perú. Sus obras tuvieron una ……続きを見る

"Benedicto XVI nos dice dos palabras sustanciales para comprender el Misterio de la salvación cristiana. la primera es la palabra belleza. Ésta revela la inexorable nostalgia del hombre por la verda……続きを見る