ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

Una verdadera enciclopedia de espacios modernos. De las geometrías de colores de Gio Ponti al fluido futurista de Zaha Hadid, este exhaustivo compendio incluye casi 300 entradas que abarcan arquitectos, estilos, movimientos y tendencias que han creado estructuras desde el siglo XIX al siglo XXI. Con casi 300 entradas, Arquitectura Moderna A-Z ofrece una inestimable visión general de las figuras clave en la creación del espacio moderno. Presenta a los arquitectos pioneros de los siglos XIX y XX con un retrato, una breve biografía y una descripción de sus obras más importantes. Como si de un viaje a medida para conocer la arquitectura de todo el mundo se tratase, descubrirá los rascacielos de Manhattan, una sala de conciertos japonesa, el Palacio Güell de Antoni Gaudí en Barcelonao el centro de ocio y deporte de Lina Bo Bardi en una antigua fábrica en São Paulo. Se adentrará en las geometrías de colores de Gio Ponti, en el fluido futurismo de Zaha Hadid, los luminosos interiores de SANAA y la mezcla única de tradición escocesa y elegante japonismo de Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Las entradas por orden alfabético del libro también abarcan grupos, movimientos y estilos para ubicar en el tiempo y en el espacio a estos arquitectos clave dentro de tendencias arquitectónicas más generales como el estilo internacional, la Bauhaus y De Stijl, entre muchos otros. Con ilustraciones que incluyen algunas de las mejores fotografías arquitectónicas de la era moderna, esta es una completa obra de consulta para profesionales, estudiantes o apasionados de la arquitectura. “Un libro de lo más sugerente, una oportuna llamada de atención para los que piensan que la arquitectura moderna está limitada a la dureza y la fealdad.”

A comprehensive volume covering five seminal genres that shaped art, from the late 19th century and well into the 20th: Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Each approach was distinct in aesthetic and philosophy, but all had immediate impact and enduring influence. Many great names were indelibly associated with one, some explored several during their careers. Impressionism, led by Monet and Renoir, focused on light and color, capturing fleeting moments and challenging academic art's rigidity. Expressionism was driven by artists like Edvard Munch and Wassily Kandinsky to convey raw emotion, distorting reality to reflect the angst of human experience. Surrealists, like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, explored the subconscious, dreams, and the irrational, blending reality with fantasy across art, literature, and film. With Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko leading the charge, Abstract Expressionism emphasized spontaneity and emotion through bold, gestural brushstrokes, and established New York as the post-war art world’s new Mecca.

Versátiles y accesibles, los rotuladores son una herramienta artística esencial tanto para artistas principiantes como experimentados. Aprenda a manejar su juego de rotuladores y a dominar realmente este medio bajo la experta orientación de la artista y educadora Angela Pan. 22 proyectos paso a paso que le mostrarán cómo crear impresionantes paisajes y escenas urbanas utilizando sus rotuladores de pintura.

Alaïa was not only a renowned couturier but also a passionate fashion historian and an insatiable collector, an interest he cultivated starting in the 1960s. He gathered over 20,000 garments in his lifetime, from the birth of haute couture to pieces by contemporaries he admired. This book showcases for the first time the priceless personal collection of Dior designs that Alaïa assembled over decades—pieces by Christian Dior as well as the artistic directors that followed him at the helm of the House. The collection is analyzed through chapters dedicated to the elements that awakened the curiosity of Alaïa’s collector genius: the construction of the dresses—their “architecture”; the enchanting multitude of the color tones and textures of the fabrics and materials; and the poetry of the names of Dior’s creations revealing the diversity of his sources of inspiration, such as Accacias, Astarté, Caracas, Chérie, Jardin anglais, Madrid, Marcel Pagnol, Rose des vents, or Tourbillon.. Illustrated by beautiful photographs of the dresses, historical archival images, drawings by Christian Dior, and collection charts detailing fabric samples and sketches, this book offers a fresh view of Alaïa’s influences and Dior’s history and will appeal to fashion lovers everywhere.

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology to be applied across painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and installation. As much an intense personal community as a publicly minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius (1883–1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school fostered charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and their interest in a “total” work of art across different practices and media.