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Weinfeld is renowned for work that exudes the power of classical modernism while being completely of its own moment. Biophilic design, an approach to architecture that emphasizes and embraces the natural world and its restorative qualities, is at its heart, allowing for a gorgeous aesthetics while also celebrating nature. Here, design offers sublime symbiosis where natural world and that which is human-made serve as complements. Above all, the buildings are easy to be in, inviting, and elegant—and all without ostentatiousness.

Más allá de un régimen político, la democracia consiste en la vitalidad de la sociedad civil, que exige superar el individualismo. Alvira reivindica la libertad del ciudadano, entendida como responsabilidad y capacidad de acción respecto a lo común. La democracia es vitalidad y pujanza de la sociedad civil, y exige personas nobles, no individualistas, que antepongan el servicio al propio interés. La verdadera democracia no excluye toda aristocracia. Más bien al contrario: la necesita. El empresario, entre otros, forma parte de ese núcleo humano, y su empresa es, como tal, una institución social. Conforma lo social. Para que la democracia engendre libertad y no solo independencia privada, necesita reinventar su aristocracia: personas que resistan al poder supremo compartiendo con él la responsabilidad por el bien común.

The impressionists were forever inspired by the sea, which Claude Monet considered “a wonderful teacher for landscape artists.” The movement’s penchant for plein air painting and its characteristic style, with delicate brushstrokes and incomparable color palettes, was perfectly suited to portrayals of the sea and its perpetual movement, from gently rippling waves to raging storms.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann Sr., his wife, Liliane Kaufmann, and their son, Edgar Kaufmann jr., Fallingwater is lauded for its architectural daring and drama. Here the Kaufmanns sought to live in harmony with the natural world. The rooms of the house reflect this ideal and remain suffused with a natural aesthetic that embraces stone and wood, handwork and craftsmanship. In the living room, the great stone floor flows riverlike toward the horizon of Wright–designed built-in sofas and large-paned casement windows, where views open to balconies, to forest, and to cascading falls. From here “the hatch” opens to the flowing stream below. Pools and the waters of Bear Run were beautiful and for swimming. Relaxed elegance was the order of the day. Delicacy, softness, tactility are everywhere in evidence.

Ensayo sobre la metafísica realista de la mano de Aristóteles y Tomás de Aquino, y su prolongación en diversos pensadores hasta la actualidad. La filosofía de Aristóteles, y la visión que tiene de él Tomás de Aquino, no es la que inspira hoy el lenguaje de los medios, el de los políticos o la publicidad. Tampoco Bach, Mozart o Beethoven son los que más suenan en las discotecas. Pero lo importante es ser referencia perenne, para que puedan encontrarla quienes deseen ir más allá (meta) de lo inmediato. Este libro aborda con rigor y de modo accesible los principales contenidos de la metafísica realista, conectando con la cultura humana desde Grecia hasta el mundo filosófico árabe, pasando por lo mejor de la filosofía cristiana.

Whether it's cocktails at the Carlyle, taking in a show at Lincoln Center, traveling via subway, or flying out of LaGuardia's venerable Marine Air Terminal, uptown to downtown to the outer boroughs, the art created for the walls of New York City's bars, hotels, offices, government buildings, and schools have themselves created the identities of the rooms they live in. Murals of New York City was the first book to curate more than thirty of the most important, influential, and impressive murals found within all five boroughs. Full-color images of works such as Paul Helleu's Mural of the Stars on Grand Central Terminal's ceiling, Robert Crowl's Dancers at the Bar at Lincoln Center, Edward Laning's New York Public Library McGraw Rotunda, José Maria Sert and Frank Brangwyn's Rockefeller Center murals, and work by artists such as Marc Chagall, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Maxfield Parrish, and more are accompanied by informative and historical commentary.