Arquitectura sagrada

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...

_____________________________________________ Mansilla + Tuñón, ganadores del Premio Mies van der Rohe de Arquitectura Europea 2007 por el Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC). _____________________________________________ En 1993, Luis Moreno Mansilla, Luis Rojo y Emilio Tuñón fundan la cooperativa de pensamiento Circo y, desde entonces, editan una publicación mensual bajo el mismo nombre. Circo constituye una plataforma de pensamiento en torno a la arquitectura, una pista de circo a la que se invita a participar. Con doce años de andadura, Circo lleva ya más de...

"This study goes beyond a formal description and esthetic analysis of house design in Mexico to offer an interpretation based on the complex network of economic, social, and cultural relations. Begins with an analysis of the indigenous home and lifestyle and continues into postrevolutionary, modern, and contemporary periods of historic transition, during which a new conception of urban space developed offering greater possibilities for individual expression. Contains many b/w plates of colonial city plans, 19th-century plans and photographs, and 20th-century photographs up to the...

El tratado de Ledoux no ofrece una estructura convencional sobre temas habituales de la tratadística, sino que proyecta sobre el futuro, sobre una idea de ciudad ideal, toda una serie de tipos y composiciones absolutamente nuevos en la Historia de la arquitectura. De ahí la seducción que sus imágenes han planteado a tantos arquitectos contemporáneos, de Le Corbusier a Ph. Johnson.