La impronta del ladrillo

En " Las piedras de Venecia " , John Ruskin escribió: «Con independencia de estilo, época, autor o nacionalidad, debe existir una ley que permita distinguir la buena arquitectura de la mala, porque discutir sin tener principios en que apoyarse, es peor que aceptar una moneda dudosa sin hacerla sonar». Sin tener la seguridad de haber encontrado tan necesaria ley universal, Antonio Miranda ha establecido en este libro unos principios que son los que han construido este canon de arquitectura con las obras que merecen el título de obras maestras. En este canon antológico se tratará, en...

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...

Adolphe Appia, es el artista visionario que impulsa el cambio de la concepción escenográfica del siglo XX. Un estudio pormenorizado de su obra equivale a un análisis en profundidad de los fundamentos de la escenografía moderna. Propicia un cambio tan significativo para la plástica teatral, una revolución que sustituye la narrativa pictórica de los decorados teatrales por efímeras arquitecturas de luz y sonido.

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.