ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

First impressions count, especially in Milano. In this unprecedented photographic journey, editor Karl Kolbitz opens the door to 144 of the city’s most sumptuous entrance halls, captivating in their diversity and splendor. These vibrant Milanese entryways, until now hidden away behind often restrained façades, are revealed as dazzling examples of Italian modernism, mediating public and private space with vivid configurations of color and form, from floors of juxtaposed stones to murals of minimalist geometry. The collection spans buildings from 1920 to 1970 and showcases the work of some of the city’s most illustrious architects and designers, including Giovanni Muzio, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, and Luigi Caccia Dominioni, as well as non-pedigreed architecture of equal impact and interest. The photographs for the publication were exclusively created by Delfino Sisto Legnani, Paola Pansini, and Matthew Billings, each evoking the entryways with individual sensibility and a stylistic interplay of detail shots―such as stones, door handles, and handrails―with larger architectural views. The images are accompanied by outstanding written contributions from Penny Sparke, Fabrizio Ballabio, Lisa Hockemeyer, Daniel Sherer, Brian Kish, and Grazia Signori, together bringing a wealth of architecture, design, and natural stone expertise to guide the reader through the applied materials and fittings as well as the art-historical and social implications of each of the ingressi. As much an architectural city guide as an aesthetic study, the book provides the exact address and an annotated Milan map for all featured entryways, as well as the architect name and date of construction. In the well-documented realm of 20th-century Italian design, Kolbitz has stepped over the threshold and delivered a brand new area of inquiry in Milanese modernism. With the rigor of its multifaceted research, poised photography, and breadth of its featured hallways, this is an invigorating new reference work and an inside look at the city’s design DNA across high to low architecture.

Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home! A collection of landscapes and representations of nature from the tropical paradise of Le Douanier Rousseau's jungle to Monet's water lilies. Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning. Artists include Hokusai, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustav Klimt, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Edward Hopper.

Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home! Plays on light and color from Japanese woodblock prints to Rothko's white cloud on a brilliant orange background. Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning. Artists include John Constable, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Edgar Degas, Nicolas de Staël, Hermione Carline, Eugène Delacroix, René Magritte, Helen White, and Mark Rothko.

El Manual de dibujo arquitectónico es el libro que dio fama internacional a Francis D. K. Ching y sus conocidos métodos de dibujo. Esta nueva edición, la cuarta desde que se publicara por primera vez en español en 1976, amplía y complementa la edición anterior incorporando nuevas ilustraciones y nuevos contenidos que hacen referencia al dibujo con herramientas digitales. Se mantiene, sin embargo, el magnífico planteamiento del original que catapultó a la fama a Ching y convirtió este libro en el manual de dibujo arquitectónico por excelencia. Organizado en diez capítulos, el libro expone las herramientas, directrices y técnicas tradicionales de la expresión gráfica en arquitectura así como las claves de la representación visual mediante recursos digitales. El estudiante de arquitectura y diseño encontrará en estas páginas desde los procedimientos básicos para dibujar plantas, secciones y alzados, o los sistemas de representación más frecuentes (el diédrico, la axonometría y la perspectiva), hasta los métodos y convenciones para representar materiales o texturas de suelo, dibujar sombras y valores tonales, o incorporar elementos contextuales como figuras humanas, coches, árboles o mobiliario. En definitiva, un clásico del dibujo técnico arquitectónico que recoge de forma sistemática las técnicas y convenciones que todo arquitecto debe conocer para representar gráficamente ideas y soluciones arquitectónicas.

Célebre por su lema «menos es más», Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)fue uno de los padres fundadores de la arquitectura moderna y una figura influyente y polémica de la estética y la experiencia urbana del siglo XX. La filosofía de Mies van der Rohe consistía en fundamentar la verdad en las formas puras y las proporciones. Mediante avances tecnológicos y materiales contemporáneos, quiso vestir la arquitectura de una pureza elemental, ejemplificada por el Seagram Building y la Farnsworth House. Hubo quien denunció este planteamiento austero como el precursor de paisajes urbanos planos y genéricos. Otros citan a Mies van der Rohe como el maestro por excelencia de una esencia perdurablemente elegante. Con más de 20 de los proyectos que creó entre 1906 y 1967, este libro presenta el carácter vanguardista de la arquitectura de Mies van der Roge y su influencia en Estados Unidos y Europa.

The inimitable style of renowned French interior designer Madeleine Castaing, chronicled in-depth for the first time. While many were drumming to the beat of modernism in the early- and mid-twentieth century, French antiquaire and decorator Madeleine Castaing created her own look that was a unique blend of neoclassicism, Proustian romanticism, and pure wit. Her distinctive aesthetic vision has inspired tastemakers on both sides of the Atlantic, and her devotees--both then and now--are legion. Ocelot carpeting, opaline blue, "coolie" lampshades, and an eclectic mix of neoclassical furnishings ranging from English Regency to Napoleon III all formed part of the vocabulary of "le style Castaing." This lavishly illustrated volume--the first on her work--explores in-depth the elements of her style, and examines how she crafted interiors so emotive that visitors felt that they had stepped into a Balzac novel or a Proustian recollection. Her entire life and career are chronicled, from her early years in Montparnasse, the epicenter of artistic activity in Paris, to her incomparable country house Leves and her legendary shop on rue Jacob in Paris.

El dibujo es una herramienta cognitiva y creativa fundamental a la hora de abordar el proyecto arquitectónico. Bajo esta premisa Francis D. K. Ching nos ofrece en este libro una guía de referencia con la que aprender a utilizar el dibujo como técnica para pensar el proyecto.Organizado en tres grandes bloques que pasan de lo más descriptivo a lo especulativo —dibujo por observación, sistemas convencionales de representación gráfica y dibujo imaginativo—, el libro explica paso a paso la gran multiplicidad de conceptos y técnicas que entran en juego en el dibujo arquitectónico: desde los principios básicos de la expresión gráfica (la línea, la forma, la sombra o el espacio), hasta los sistemas de representación más frecuentes (el sistema diédrico, la axonometría y la perspectiva cónica) o los innumerables conceptos y herramientas existentes (tales como el rayado, la orientación, la escala, la estratificación o la diagramación).Además de los 1.500 dibujos ilustrados a mano y los cerca de 140 ejercicios que incluye el libro, esta nueva edición ampliada incorpora técnicas de dibujo por ordenador e incluye un CD con tutoriales. El estudiante de arquitectura y el arquitecto encontrarán en estas páginas una ayuda práctica y didáctica no solo para representar los proyectos, sino también para pensar espacialmente.

The architectural style of the classic American summer, the shingled house can suggest the beach, the countryside, the mountains, and even the city. AD100 architects Ike Kligerman Barkley, one of the most successful firms practicing in a traditional style today, presents 14 houses that celebrate the simple wood shingle's infinite flexibility--ranging from richly historic to sculptural and experimental. The New Shingled House includes examples throughout the fabled seaside resorts of New England--Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, and the Hamptons--as well as houses in California's Bay Area and Point Loma, on a pristine mountain lake in South Carolina, and a Scandinavian influenced family residence in Connecticut. All are characterized by a sense of graciousness and generosity that makes them unique spaces for the owners and enviable spaces for readers. The versatility of the shingle style allows the designers to explore formal ideas and to respond to client preferences and taste. The houses thus achieve the architects' fundamental goal: when their clients enter their new house for the first time, they should feel as though they have always lived there. This stunning visual presentation features new photography by noted interiors photographer William Waldron, who has captured the graciousness and generosity of the elegant interiors and welcoming porches and terraces that make these houses so inviting and timeless.