ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

In this completely revised and up-to-date edition, the world's most accomplished architects -- Gehry, Pei, Meier, Nouvel, Piano, and 37 more-express their views on creativity, inspiration, and legacy in this visually stunning, one-of-a-kind collection. The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Architect includes all 42 recipients of the Pritzker Prize, and captures in pictures and their own words their awe-inspiring achievements. Organized in reverse chronological order by laureate each chapter features four to six of the architect's major works, including museums, libraries, hotels, places of worship, and more. The text, culled from notebooks, interviews, articles, and speeches illuminates the architects' influences and inspirations, personal philosophy, and aspirations for his own work and the future of architecture. The book includes More than 1000 stunning photographs, blueprints, sketches, and CAD drawings.Architect offers an unprecedented view into the minds of some of the most creative thinkers, dreamers, and builders of the last three decades and reveals that buildings are political, emotional, and spiritual.

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.”

Muchos arquitectos se han acercado a la Industrialización a lo largo de la historia de la arquitectura contemporánea. Hoy en día, los avances tecnológicos en materiales más resistentes y ligeros hacen por fin posible que la arquitectura industrializada de alto nivel, con plena libertad creativa, sea una realidad.

Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter. Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy’s stenciled graffiti for Blur, and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album name, label, year of release, and information on the original artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists and musicians.

Through her work as the host of the “Quintessence At Home With” video series on YouTube, Susanna Salk visits incredible homes of designers and other creatives, experiencing how they live and how they decorate when it’s for themselves, not for a client. Whether it’s the Connecticut weekend retreat of textile designer John Robshaw, or photographer Pieter Estersohn’s restored Hudson Valley home full of his work and inspiration, or the cozy garden retreat of chef Lulu Powers in West Hollywood, Salk has gathered decorating tips and secrets from some of the most stylish and savvy people. Here Salk opens the doors of her favorite homes, imparting lessons for navigating various design chal-lenges, and limited budgets, while bringing their rooms to life. With original photography that captures the big and small moments in all 15 homes—and with Salk’s tips on how to implement these design ideas into our own settings on our own budget—this book inspires us with ways we can live more fully and stylishly in our own homes.