ARQUITECTURAS EFIMERAS

Si hubiésemos de resaltar una característica definitoria del tratado compuesto por el paduano Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), universalmente conocido por sus grandes arquitecturas religiosas y, sobre todo, divieles que todavía hoy embellecen las ciudades del Véneto, ésta sería sin duda la de su pragmatismo clasicista. En contraposición al neoplatonismo del Quattrocento, su afán aristotélico por ceñirse a la realidad le llevó a primar el ideal clásico como supremo reflejo de un modo civil de vida. En palabras de Javier Rivera, historiador y teórico y autor de numerosos estudios sobre ...

La presente edicion, ampliada especialmente por el autor respecto a la segunda edicion inglesa, presenta una historia internacional completa del desarrollo de la forma urbana desde las primeras ciudades de la antiguedad hasta los albores de las Revoluciones Industriales en Europa y hasta la Guerra Civil de 1861 en los EE.UU. de America.

City and Architecture, Six generations who built up the modern Latin America comes from the architecture and urban planning history developed in the Latin-American area between 1885 and 1975. This is an organized work from a method called by the author generational, which covers 90 years (six generations). The names of those generations, that each one of them covers a period of 15 years, are gathered together in the chapters names of the book. The exposition of the context of each historic period is connected with the analysis of the architecture work, which offers a wide outlook of the...

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...