Valode & Pistre Architects

Valode & Pistre Architects

English

The firm of Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, which has been practicing for 25 years, entered upon a new phase of its career in 1992, when the architects in cooperation with the landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson received the Equerre d'argent prize of the journal Le Moniteur for the L Oréal corporate headquarters outside Paris. 

Their predominantly large-scale projects are distinguished by their high degree of diversity. For some years, Valode & Pistre have not only been practicing in France, their native country, but also maintain offices in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Russia, Mexico, China, and elsewhere.

This book contains detailed presentations of 18 projects by Valode & Pistre, with documentation focusing on the specific working and design methods of the architects. Projects presented include the Renault Technocentre in Guyancourt, France; the Las Mercedes business park in Madrid, Spain; a group of office and hotel towers in Beijing, China; and the Hyatt Hotel in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

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Towards a New Architecture - Le Corbusier

Towards a New Architecture - Le Corbusier

This pioneering proclamation by the great architect expounds Le Corbusier's technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production spirit," and much more. Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of Le Corbusier's buildings and other important structures.

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Eisenman Architects: Selected and Current Works

Eisenman Architects: Selected and Current Works

(Master Architect Series)

Peter Eisenman

English

THE MASTER ARCHITECT SERIES is a series of monographs on some of the greatest architects and architectural firms of our time. Each monograph will contain 256 pages displaying several hundred color photographs, drawings, sketches and renderings. Although primarily a pictorial essay, the books will contain selected projects described in concise detail, along with a critique or overview of the firm, a resume of the partners, and a comprehensive bibliography.

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Dominique Perrault : Selected and Current Works

Dominique Perrault : Selected and Current Works

(Master Architect Series) 

English

Dominique Perrault's architecture and urban designs are strictly modern, yet his simple and efficient shapes contain a classical and timeless element. 

He constantly manages to satisfy the need to be reasonable without sacrificing the aesthetic awareness that breathes life into his buildings. 

Perrault's work is without a predictable set of standards or style. He gives no specific meaning or system to his designs, but a uniqueness from start to finish. 

Perrault's portfolio of work includes Biblioth,que nationale de France, APLIX Factory, The Great Greenhouse, Book Technology Centre, Water Purification Plant for S.A.G.E.P., University for Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Olympic Velodrome and Swimming Pool in Berlin.

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Ten Houses : Wheeler Kearns Architects

Ten Houses : Wheeler Kearns Architects

 Wheeler Kearns Architects seeks out small- to medium-sized projects with intellectually challenging programs and involved clients. The firm enjoys these projects, typically institutional or residential, because they best utilize its talents and coincide with established goals.

Holding fast to this groundwork has proved valuable as Wheeler Kearns Architects has gained recognition. Early notice for its residential work in 1989 by the AIA's Chicago Chapter was followed in 1992 by the AIA's national publication, Architecture, when it included Wheeler Kearns Architects in their list of nine national firms of "emerging talent." 

The firm operates a Website at [http://wkarch.com] that not only distributes project information among consultants and clients, but also has portions open to the general public and is periodically updated.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Text is in English, German and French.

Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. 

At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. 

His prairie house concept—that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure—was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses and became a model for rural architecture across America. 

Wright`s designs for office and public buildings were equally groundbreaking and unique. From Fallingwater to New York`s Guggenheim Museum, his works are among the most famous in the history of architecture.

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Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava

English, German and French.
190 Mb

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Richard Meier - Architect - Red Book

Richard Meier - Architect - Red Book

English | PDF | 417 pages

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The Norman Foster Studio : Consistency Through Diversity

The Norman Foster Studio : 

Consistency Through Diversity

PDF | 224 Pages | 10 mb

Malcolm Quantrill first met Norman Foster in 1991, when he wrote an article on Foster's Tokyo Century Tower. The result was a collaboration between unatrill and the Foster studio in the production of this unique study of the Foster ethos. 

The Norman Foster Studio offers a number of original revelations about the philosophy and design methods that have generated the reputation of the Foster studio over the past three decades.

 Quantrill's explorations begin with a distinctly personal account of Norman Foster's childhood and beginnings in the world of architecture, and continues with a dialohue between the author and each of the five members of the Foster parternship. 

At the core of this book is the provocative critique of some of Foster's key buildings and projects including the Joslyn Museum Extension in Omaha. 

In the first truly comprehensive critique of the Foster oeuvre, the book is fully illustrated throughout and contains many original drawings by SirNorman Foster and much previously unpublished material from the practice archives.

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The Architecture Of Rasem Badran: Narratives On People And Place

The Architecture Of Rasem Badran: 

Narratives On People And Place

A complete overview of the work of the most important architect in the Middle East today.

Rasem Badran's influence is rapidly spreading throughout the developing world. His work involves the full spectrum of the built environment, from urban planning to individual residences. He concentrates on making architecture that meets the social and cultural requirements of the people who use it, as well as being place-specific in response to environmental conditions. Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Badran was educated in Ramallah and then in Germany, which had a profound impact on his approach to design. His well-balanced education, beginning with a traveling apprenticeship with his father and continuing through a fertile and exciting time of experimental architecture in Europe, has allowed him to weave a systematically rational, Western methodology with the intuitive traditions inherent in his own cultural background.

Badran designs buildings and environments that stand in stark contrast to self-conscious, anonymous architecture devoid of any reference to people, place, or culture. He offers a humane option to the deliberately commodified, blatantly branded, aesthetically objectified, and environmentally inarticulate architecture that is becoming the norm in the developed world today. 300 illustrations, 250 in color.

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Oscar Niemeyer 100 anos

Oscar Niemeyer 100 anos

Português

O jornal publica um caderno especial com 20 páginas em papel branco e formato diferenciado, uma homenagem e referência à revista Módulo, publicação de arquitetura e urbanismo que teve Niemeyer como editor. Em destaque, um perfil do arquiteto a partir de depoimentos de amigos mais próximos, suas obras no Brasil e no exterior, viagens, os projetos atuais e a história de vida de quem chega aos 100 anos

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New Classicists: American Architecture

New Classicists: American Architecture

William T. Baker

English

William T. Baker is an acclaimed designer of fine custom homes. For the past seventeen years he has distinguished himself with his superior designs, craftsmanship and unique architectural details. The result is a range of one-of-a-kind homes, from casual beach houses to primary residences. Baker brings clients into the process, to ensure that the end result is more than just needs met, but a vision fulfilled. He believes 'the design process should be collaborative, dynamic, gratifying and fun'.

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NBJJ - Selected and Current Works

NBJJ - Selected and Current Works

The Master Architect Series

English/Chinese Edition

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MIES VAN DER ROHE

MIES VAN DER ROHE

Akal Arquitectura (Spanish Edition)

Español

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Le Corbusier in Detail

Le Corbusier in Detail

English

This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings. It illustrates the ways in which Le Corbusier's details were expressive of his overall philosophical intentions. It is not a construction book in the usual sense- rather it focusses on the meaning of detail, on the ways in which detail informs the overall architectural narrative of a building. Well illustrated and containing several specially prepared scaled drawings it acts as timely reminder to both students and architects of the possibilities inherent in the most small scale tectonic gestures. 

* Lavishly illustrated, with numerous in depth studies this book will be an inspiration to both students and architects

* This is the first book to illustrate Le Corbusier's philosophies through his use of detail 

* So innovative was Le Corbusier's approach to design and so influential has he been on the current generation of architects that his work remains as relevant today as it ever did

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Le Corbusier - El Modulor (1948)

Le Corbusier - El Modulor (1948)

ed en castellano.

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Ken Smith Landscape Architect Urban Projects

Ken Smith 

Landscape Architect 

Urban Projects

A Source Books in Landscape Architecture 2

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Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel

español

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Itsuko Hasegawa : Selected and Current Works 1976-1996

Itsuko Hasegawa 

Selected and Current Works 1976-1996

(The Master Architect Series II)

English

A leading Japanese architect whose projects range from formal beginnings through Shondndai cultural centre and beyond to the sophistication of recent work which is an orchestra of practicality and elegance.

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Hascher & Jehle Architektur

Hascher & Jehle Architektur

(Modern Architect)

PDF | 222 Pages | 33 MB

English, German

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Frank Lloyd Wright (A cura di Bruno Zevi)

Frank Lloyd Wright (A cura di Bruno Zevi)

italiano

"Genio eretico, tra i massimi protagonisti della vicenda architettonica di tutti i tempi, Wright ha anticipato e poi oltrepassato i maestri europei del movimento moderno: una lunga e affascinante avventura umana, che si lega strettamente ad una produzione inesauribile che ha costellato l'America di centinaia di capolavori. E chi meglio di Bruno Zevi può guidare a riscoprire e rileggere Wright? Questo libro è una guida per le nuove generazioni, ma anche, finalmente, il compendio che è sempre mancato nella mai completa pubblicistica sul genio di Taliesin." Dalla quarta di copertina. 

"Nel 1975, poco prima di partire per la fiera di Francoforte, passai dalla Clup. Francesca Piccarreta, che si occupava del settore di architettura, mi fece vedere delle piccole monografie su Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe e Alvar Aalto da poco pubblicate da un editore svizzero.

Non le conoscevo; lei le trovava molto valide. Così a Francoforte passai dallo stand di Artemis, per chiedere (in verità senza troppa convinzione) se quei titoli erano liberi. La trattativa fu sorprendentemente facile e rapida. Devo dunque a Francesca l'idea della "Serie di Architettura", che negli anni Ottanta sarebbe diventata la più importante collana di varia del catalogo Zanichelli. Il successo dei primi tre titoli tradotti mi convinse a provare anche

con monografie scritte da autori italiani: partirono due lettere a Zevi e Benevolo, e una terza a Pier Luigi Nervi. Benevolo non rispose. Per Nervi invece rispose il figlio. Il libro su Nervi venne poi curato dal nipote, Pier Luigi jr, da un anziano architetto dello studio, Giuseppe Positano, e da Paolo Desideri, che sarebbe più tardi diventato a sua volta uno dei più noti architetti italiani.

Da Zevi speravo di ottenere una monografia su Frank Lloyd Wright; Zevi non solo rispose positivamente, ma rilanciò proponendo, oltre a Wright, anche Mendelsohn e Terragni. Il rilancio aveva tutta l'aria del «tutto o niente», e così mi trovai a lavorare con lui su tre libri. Bruno Zevi è stato certamente la personalità più forte che io abbia conosciuto in trent'anni di lavoro: non andavamo d'accordo quasi su niente, ma c'era (almeno per quanto mi riguarda) una specie di attrazione fatale. Credo che abbia influenzato molto il mio carattere, o almeno mi piace pensarlo oggi che ho un'età vicina a quella che aveva lui negli anni Settanta.

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Frank Lloyd Wright - Usonia

Frank Lloyd Wright - Usonia

(Spanish Edition)

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Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford

Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford

English, German  | pages 112 | 2005

Located at the center of the German furniture manufacturing

industry, Marta, the latest European Museum by Frank O.

Gehry, opened in December 2004 to universal acclaim. 

Conceived

as a laboratory for redefining the relationship between art,

design, and industry, this Gehry masterwork houses art

galleries, a library, educational facilities, and conference

and cultural meeting rooms.

While the gallery is, for Gehry,

an uncharacteristic neutral white cube, it is wrapped in a

series of bulging curvatures creating a dome that announces

his distinctive architectural signature. 

This book, which

contains previously unpublished material on the design and

construction of the museum, offers insight into the working

process of arguably the world's most famous architect, and

his ideas about the shifting boundaries between industry,

design, art, and architecture.

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Frank Gehry - The City and Music

Frank Gehry - The City and Music

The City and Music is the result of a unique collaboration between the architect and leading critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. It focuses on two projects, Gehry's unrealised proposal for the rehabilitation of Berlin's Museum Island and his soon to be completed Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, while discussing other projects such as the Pavilion for the Performing Arts in Concord, California, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Gehry's much debated relationship to Minimalist sculpture, use of new building materials and attitude to tradition, are discussed with regard to his belief in architecture as a democratic practice which is at once practical and expressive.

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Arte Charpentier en Chine 2002 - 2012

Arte Charpentier en Chine 2002 - 2012

De l'architecture à la ville / From Architecture to the City

English, French,  Chinese | 2012 | 243 pages | PDF | 107 MB

Arte Charpentier Architectes regroupe architectes, urbanistes, architectes d'intérieur et paysagistes, soit 130 personnes dans le monde. Créé en 1969, Me Charpentier Architectes a acquis une réputation internationale. Travaillant pour des clients publics et privés l'agence participe à de nombreux concours en Europe, au Moyen Orient, en Asie-Pacifique, en Chine et en Afrique. Esprit d'équipe, innovation et respect des cultures locales sont les caractéristiques de l'agence, avec une attention particulière aux questions de l'environnement et du développement durable. Présent en chine depuis le début des années 1990, Arte Charpentier Architectes y a développé ses activités et ouvert une agence, à Shanghai, en 2002.

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Sir Norman Foster

Sir Norman Foster

(Big Series Art)

 1997 | 176 pages

English, German, French 

A detailed survey of the work of British architect, Sir Norman Foster, this volume includes details of projects from 1964 to the year 2000.

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Mies van der Rohe - European Works

Mies van der Rohe - European Works

Architectural Monographs

1986 | English | 112 pages

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Foster Associates - Recent Works

Foster Associates - Recent Works

Architectural Monographs

1995 | English | 143 pages

Foster Associates was established by Norman and Wendy Foster in 1967 after several years of working with Richard Rogers. 

Perhaps best known internationally for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the firm has worked recently in the UK, Japan, France, Germany and Spain. 

Having received over 50 awards and commendations for outstanding architectural design, there has continued to exist a passionate belief in modern architecture and the adaptation of technology to meet human needs. 

The work presented in this volume covers an enormous range of recent, diverse projects and also illustrates a number of unrealised projects.

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An Architecture of the Ozarks : The Works of Marlon Blackwell

An Architecture of the Ozarks

The Works of Marlon Blackwell

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Charles A. Haertling - Architect

Charles A. Haertling - Architect

Biography

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Casa Malaparte

Casa Malaparte

Francesco Venezia

 Spanish | 2001 | PDF | 84 pages | 11 Mb

Casa Malaparte (also Villa Malaparte) is a house on Punta Massullo, on the eastern side of the isle of Capri, Italy. It is one of the best examples of Italian modern and contemporary architecture.

The house was conceived around 1937 by the well-known Italian architect Adalberto Libera for Curzio Malaparte.

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Carlo Scarpa Architect

Carlo Scarpa Architect

English/Spanish/Portugues

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Villa Tugendhat (Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe)

Villa Tugendhat 

(Architecture Mies Van Der Rohe)

Muzeum mesta Brna |PDF | 21 pages | 10,5 mb

Few monuments of modern architecture can be as much sure of their fate as the villa in Brno. Its status as a national cultural heritage, now reinforced by its listing among the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Herltage, will protect the villa against inappropriate occupancy and consequent undesirable alterations.

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Architecture for the Poor: An Experiment in Rural Egypt

Architecture for the Poor: 

An Experiment in Rural Egypt

Hassan Fathy,

366 pages | PDF | 31 Mb

Architecture for the Poor describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. 

Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural designs as enclosed courtyards and vaulted roofing, Fathy worked with the villagers to tailor his designs to their needs. 

He taught them how to work with the bricks, supervised the erection of the buildings, and encouraged the revival of such ancient crafts as claustra (lattice designs in the mudwork) to adorn the buildings.

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Archigram : Architecture without Architecture

Archigram : Architecture without Architecture

2005 | 440 pages | PDF | 10,8 Mb

In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. 

In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler argues that Archigram's sense of fun takes its place beside the other cultural agitants of the 1960s, originating attitudes and techniques that became standard for architects rethinking social space and building technology. 

The Archigram style was assembled from the Apollo missions, constructivism, biology, manufacturing, electronics, and popular culture, inspiring an architectural movement—High Tech—and influencing the postmodern and deconstructivist trends of the late twentieth century.

Although most Archigram projects were at the limits of possibility and remained unbuilt, the six architects at the center of the movement, Warren Chalk, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, and Michael Webb, became a focal point for the architectural avant-garde, because they redefined the purpose of architecture. 

Countering the habitual building practice of setting walls and spaces in place, Archigram architects wanted to provide the equipment for amplified living, and they welcomed any cultural rearrangements that would ensue. 

Archigram: Architecture without Architecture—the first full-length critical and historical account of the Archigram phenomenon—traces Archigram from its rediscovery of early modernist verve through its courting of students, to its ascent to international notoriety for advocating the "disappearance of architecture."

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Eduardo Souto de Moura

2G №5 - Eduardo Souto de Moura

Spanish/English | 1998 | PDF | 144 pages | 54 Mb

Eduardo Souto de Moura (b. Oporto, 1952) is one of the greatest architects on the contemporary Portuguese scene. A key figure among recent generations of architects in his country, it is he who has assumed the mantle the two great maestros of modern Portuguese architecture: Fernando Tavora and Alvaro Siza.

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Aires Mateus

2G - n 28 - Aires Mateus

Spanish/English

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Le Corbusier - Complete Works

Le Corbusier - Complete Works in Eight Volumes [BOX SET]

1995 | PDF | French, English, German | 176240 pages | 508 Mb(8 files)
 

The eight volumes of this extraordinary edition, the 1929 to 1970 was published and since has been reprinted again and again, documenting the wide range of work by Le Corbusier. 

They document the work of the most influential architects of the 20th Century. In direct collaboration with Le Corbusier in over 40 years, makes the set a unique and exhaustive inventory of its buildings, projects, sketches, books, manifestos, drawings and texts, which the world of architecture have changed.
 

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KPF: Selected and Current Works (Kohn Pedersen Fox)

KPF: Selected and Current Works (Kohn Pedersen Fox)

The Master Architect Series II
English/Chinese Edition
 

 Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (also known by the acronym KPF) is an international architectural design firm located in New York, London and Shanghai providing urban design and master planning for public authorities and private companies

.The firm's designs can be seen in commercial skyscrapers such as the Shanghai World Financial Center. In 1990, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) awarded KPF with its Architecture Firm Award.

The firm was established in 1976 by Eugene Kohn, William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox

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Hopkins 2: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners

Hopkins 2: The Work of Michael Hopkins and Partners

240 pages | 2001 | JPG | 350 MB

Michael Hopkins' recent architecture defies easy categorization. The High Tech style of his formative years has developed into something much richer. In buildings like the Glyndebourne Opera House, the Inland Revenue Centre and the New Parliamentary Building, a new toughness and individuality has emerged. 

These buildings have the uncompromising quality of certain 19th-century industrial buildings, yet they have managed to gain acceptance among some of Britain's most ancient institutions. 

They are often hybrid creations, juxtaposing strongly contrasting elements - lightweight fabric structures and massive loadbearing walls, for example - yet they remain loyal to a strict code of truth to materials and honesty of expression. 

Traditional and new forms of construction are combined in unconventional ways, often using innovative prefabrication techniques, but without sacrificing traditional craft virtues. This monograph documents the consolidation of Hopkins' mature style over the last 10 years. 

An essay by respected architecture critic Charles Jencks examines themes and historical precedent in the buildings. Detailed presentations of over 20 buildings and projects analyze the genesis and logic of a unique and now instantly recognizable architecture. 

The book's publication coincides with Hopkins' most important commission to date, the New Parliamentary Building in London's Westminster, which has an extensive presentation in the book, and which is also discussed in an essay by writer and architect Patrick Hodgkinson. "Hopkins 2" also includes works published as unbuilt projects in the previous monograph, including Glyndebourne Opera House and the Inland Revenue Centre, Nottingham.
 

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Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando

PDF/208pages/88Mb
Spanish

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Renzo Piano : Sustainable architectures / arquitecturas sostenibles

Renzo Piano :

 Sustainable architectures / arquitecturas sostenibles 

 spanish-english

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Le Corbusier 1910-65

Le Corbusier 1910-65 (monografía GG)
ed en castellano.

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Herzog & de Meuron

Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron

 español | 208 pages | GG

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Mathias Klotz - Portfolio

Mathias Klotz - Portfolio

English, Spanish

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steven holl - ENTRELAZAMIENTOS

steven holl - ENTRELAZAMIENTOS

 Spanish

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Alvar Aalto - Works and Projects

Alvar Aalto (Obras y Proyectos / Works and Projects)

 English, Spanish

Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, is one of the great architects of the 20th century. Although his early work was influenced by the neoclassic movement, he went on to develop his own individual form of architecture which was functionalist yet expressionist, incorporating humane aspects into his work. 

This special edition provides a compact overview of his works, complete with plans, illustrations and explanatory texts. It is an ideal introduction to the work of Alvar Aalto and highlights his unique contribution to 20th century architecture.

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