Arquitectonics

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...

Examen de cuatro arquitectos en cuya obra el componente táctil de la artesanía y la luminosidad de su sencilla exposición se combinan refinándose hasta un grado sin precedentes. Aunque los arquitectos -David Chipperfield (Londres), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisboa) y Tod Williams y Billie Tsien (Nueva York)- proceden de culturas muy diferentes, su arquitectura manifiesta una extraña visión de pureza y serenidad independientes del tiempo y el espacio. Desde las delicadas reinterpretaciones que hace Chipperfield de las formas históricas hasta la exquisita contención...

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

Describes the degree and license mechanisms for the professional practice of architecture in Peru from the first courses in the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, with a detailed presentation of the school formation of the architects from 1910 to 1950 in the School of Engineering of the university. The book was originally the author's masters thesis and won the prize "Héctor Velarde" during the XI Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura, organized in 2004 by CAP.