ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

Un clásico del diseño revisado y actualizado Desde su aparición en 2005, esta obra de Kristin Cullen se ha convertido en una herramienta de un valor incalculable tanto para estudiantes, como para diseñadores y profesionales creativos que buscan claridad e inspiración en el diseño gráfico. 'Composición y creatividad' arroja luz sobre todos los aspectos de la composición y explica con detalle qué se precisa para diseñar con seguridad y con un entendimiento claro de los conceptos. También incluye casos de estudio actualizados que recogen el trabajo de los diseñadores más reputados en el panorama internacional.Cullen comienza con una serie de capítulos paso a paso, una completa guía para elaborar bien un proyecto de diseño, en los que aborda temas como la inspiración, el proceso creativo, la elección de las tipografías, la estructura y la organización espacial, el establecimiento de la jerarquía y la comunicación de ideas. A estos capítulos didácticos sigue una maravillosa sección transversal de casos de estudio con textos informativos y específicos, ilustrados con maravillosas imágenes. De principio a fin, 'Composición y creatividad' se interna en el corazón mismo del diseño y explica el cómo y el porqué del proceso.

Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of “home” into a workable, constructed reality. This publication rounds up 100 of the world’s most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.

Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize.Since Osaka World Expo ’70 highlighted contemporary forms, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Tadao Ando's geometry put Japanese building on the map, bridging East and West. After his concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Kazuyo Sejima pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have taken new directions, in harmony with nature, traditional building, and an endless search for forms.Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book links this unique creativity to Japan's high population density, modern economy, long history, and continual disasters in the form of earthquakes. Accepting ambiguity, constant change, and catastrophe is a key to understanding how Japanese architecture differs from that of Europe or America.Derived from the XL-sized book, this affordable edition highlights 37 architects and 53 exceptional projects by Japanese masters—from Tadao Ando’s Shanghai Poly Theater, Shigeru Ban’s concert hall La Seine Musical, SANAA’s Grace Farms, Fumihiko Maki’s 4 World Trade Center to Takashi Suo’s much smaller sustainable dental clinic. An elaborate essay traces the building scene from the Metabolists to today, showing how the interaction of past, present, and future has earned contemporary Japanese architecture worldwide recognition.

For 125 years Country Life has presented its readers with the finest insider’s tour of everything quintessentially British. Now in one volume, this spectacular collection of images offers the best of life in the British countryside, from charming Cotswolds villages to panoramic views across the Yorkshire dales and Glastonbury for readers who will revel in tramping across the heather filled moors to see King Charles’s favorite view in all England, the white cliffs of Dover, and the Dark Hedges of Northern Ireland. Discover on these pages the culture and seasonal activities of country life, whether it be a gentleman farmer showing off his prize cattle, fly fishing in the Scottish highlands, swan upping on the Thames, or cricket on the village green.