BELLAS ARTES

Descubra la selección más exquisita de viviendas nuevas del mundo, desde pequeñas casas de campo y lujosas villas hasta residencias de playa y refugios en bosques. Este cuidado compendio global cuenta con autores consolidados como Shigeru Ban y Marcio Kogan, junto a otros creadores emergentes como Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia y Shunri Nishizawa. El presente volumen nos abre la puerta a hogares de Australia y Nueva Zelanda, China y Vietnam, Estados Unidos y México, y de otros lugares menos esperados como Ecuador y Costa Rica. El resultado es una completa panorámica de la vivienda contemporánea y un recordatorio de que, cuando hablamos de casas, todos tenemos mucho más en común de lo que podríamos creer... Entre árboles de guayaba y fortalezas abandonadas en el oeste de la India se encuentra un santuario proyectado por y para Kamal Malik, de Malik Architecture.

Este volumen está centrado en la utilización del repertorio con una finalidad didáctica tanto dentro de la clase de instrumento como durante el estudio personal, porque no basta con encadenar el estudio de una obra con el de la siguiente, sino que se debe hacer sabiendo qué nos puede aportar cada una de ellas de cara al futuro. Pero para conseguirlo es imprescindible saber analizarlas tanto técnica como musicalmente, y también disponer de una buena planificación donde poderlas incluir de forma ordenada.

Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefits, wood has seen a fabulous resurgence in contemporary construction. This book explores how architects around the world have created and invented with this elementary material. Featuring follies, very large buildings, and ambitious urban renewal schemes, it celebrates the diverse deployment of wood by architects around the world. We see how wood can at once transform urban spaces, as in the Metropol Parasol in Seville by Jürgen Mayer H., and allow for sensitive interventions in natural environments, such as at the Termas Geométricas Hot Springs Complex in Pucón, Chile, by Germán del Sol. True to all TASCHEN architecture titles, the book pays tribute to many emerging international talents as well as to such renowned figures as Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano. It celebrates each architect’s vision and innovation, as well as investigating the techniques, trends, and principles that have informed their work with wood. It examines the computer-guided milling that has allowed for novel new forms, the responsible harvesting that allows wood to align with our environmental concerns, and, above all, wood’s enduring appeal to our senses and psyche, comforting hectic modern lives with a sense of Arcadian simplicity.

More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents a visual review of the adidas shoe through almost 200 models.To further develop and tailor his products to athletes’ specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic (to this day, many athletes return their shoes to adidas, often as a thank you after winning a title or breaking a world record). This collection now makes up the "adidas archive", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of any sports goods manufacturer in the world—which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually documenting in extreme detail for years.Shot using the highest reproduction techniques, these images reveal the fine details as much as the stains, the tears, the repair tape, the grass smudges, the faded autographs. It’s all here, unmanipulated and captured in extremely high resolution—and with it comes to light the personal stories of each individual wearer. We encounter the shoes worn by West Germany’s football team during its “miraculous” 1954 World Cup win and those worn by Kathrine Switzer when she ran the Boston Marathon in 1967, before women were officially allowed to compete; custom models for stars from Madonna to Lionel Messi; collabs with the likes of Pharrell Williams, Raf Simons, Stella McCartneyor Yohji Yamamoto; as well as the brand’s trailblazing techniques and materials.Accompanied by expert texts, each picture tells us the why and the how, but also conveys the driving force behind adidas. What we discover goes beyond mere design; in the end, these are just shoes, worn out by their users who have loved them—but they are also first-hand witnesses of our sports, design, and culture history, from the beginnings of the Dassler brothers and the founding of adidas until today.

In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a TASCHEN classic celebrates the botanical tradition and talents with a selection of outstanding works from the National Library of Vienna, including many new images. From Byzantine manuscripts right through to 19th-century masterpieces, through peonies, callas, and chrysanthemums, these exquisite reproductions dazzle in their accuracy and their aesthetics. Whether in gently furled leaves, precisely textured fruits, or the sheer beauty and variety of colors, we celebrate an art form as tender as it is precise, and ever more resonant amid our growing awareness of our ecological surroundings and the preciousness of natural flora.

En la búsqueda del placer por el conocimiento y la belleza, el arte de la ilustración botánica siempre ha requerido una meticulosa técnica de delineado y una rigurosa comprensión científica. Esta nueva edición, que incluye nuevas imágenes, repasa toda la tradición botánica y sus talentos, con una selección de las mejores obras de la Biblioteca Nacional de Viena. Desde manuscritos bizantinos hasta obras maestras del siglo XIX, a través de peonías, lirios y crisantemos, estas exquisitas reproducciones deslumbran por su precisión y su estética. Sea con hojas cuidadosamente enrolladas, texturas de frutas dibujadas con precisión o la belleza pura y la variedad de los colores, esta forma de arte es tan delicada como precisa, e incluso despierta nuestra conciencia sobre el entorno ecológico y sobre la preciosa flora natural tan amenazada.