Avenues of Translation

The only city in the world to span two continents, Istanbul blends European and Asian influences with great style. Home to one of the world's most distinctive cuisines, dining here is an experience to be savored. This compendium showcases the trendiest dining establishments, sure to please even the most sophisticated of sensibilities. With elegant interiors and audacious selections of Turkish and international dishes, Istanbul is home to a dynamic dining scene where you?re sure to be dazzled. This invaluable overview to what's happening in Istanbul's dining scene is interspersed with a...

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...

A study of Bogota viewed as a museum (outside of the traditional museum). This work offers a critical look at modern city through a series of tours through downtown Bogotá, specifically on Seventh Avenue between Calles 11 and 16 that was transformed from Bogotazo through an urban renewal project. It turned the area into a paradigm of what should be a modern Bogotá. The book discusses the aesthetic character of its architecture, the connections between traditional museums, and reaffirmed the principles of order and functionality of the modern movement and led to rules that have sought...

Treinta hombres que hicieron Madrid es un homenaje a aquellos que han hecho de Madrid la ciudad que es hoy. Arquitectos, alcaldes, escritores y constructores, hasta santos y reyes, que contribuyeron con su esfuerzo e imaginación al crecimiento y embellecimiento de la ciudad. Encontramos reye como Carlos III, aquel monarca empeñado en limpiar la cara de una capital que no lo parecía; famosos arquitectos como Antonio Palacios o Secundino Zuazo, que diseñaron los edificios más destacados del siglo XX; constructores como el marqués de Salamanca, que se arruinó construyendo el lujoso barrio ...