Agua, arquitectura y paisaje en Europa

Desde finales de la decada de los sesenta, han ido surgiendo, en la representacion de la arquitectura, planteamientos graficos al margen de la operatividad tradicional, que han abierto interrogantes sobre sus origenes, sus modos de expresion y sus posibilidades de generalizacion. Esto ha sucedido especialmente en el ambito de lo que se ha entendido como neovanguardias arquitectonicas, la tendencia caracterizada por la experimentacion a partir de diferentes aspectos de una espacialidad moderna, y tambien, la mas renovadora, en lo referente a la representacion arquitectonica. Cuando la cultura...

La muestra se dispone en trono a cuatro grandes temas -arte, arquitectura, diseño y fotografía-, que revisan en clave constructivista lo sucedido en Suiza en la época de entreguerras: el arte se concibe como un todo que contribuye a una vida más equilibrada y en armonía con el mundo.

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

The book is an historic and graphical account of the patios of "vecindad" (neighbourhood) in the port city of Veracruz, in a period that goes from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The foreword of this edition, states that the first record of a patio of a "vecindad" dates back to 1791, highlighting that those patios have seen the early years of musician and singer "Toña la Negra" and were the place of origin of the famous "picadas" from Veracruz, one of the most popular snacks of the jarocha traditional cuisine.