Download or read book Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura written by Pablo Bofill and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than fifty years after its founding, Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura remains at the forefront of the urban design and architectural professions... centralized in a repurposed former cement factory-La Fábrica-on the outskirts of Barcelona, El Taller consists of a diverse, driven, and cohesive team of talent. Originating from over twenty countries, the staff ranges in specialty from architects and urban planners to graphic and industrial designers. This multidisciplinary and global perspective fosters a cultural sensitivity that informs the work of the internationally renowned architecture, urban planning, and design practice" -- Introduction.
Download or read book Ricardo Bofill written by Gestalten and published by Gestalten. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic spaces, surreal structures and dramatic visions. The extraordinary career of Ricardo Bofill is collected in this monograph, which reveals his inspiring approach to architecture, and to life.Ricardo Bofill is one of the 20th century's most unique architects and radical visionaries. With his Taller de Arquitectura he built spaces for everyday life with otherworldly aesthetics, that have been elevated to iconic status in countless films and images. His visions for urban and communal life challenged preconceived notions of shared space and proposed alternative styles of living. This monograph explores his revolutionary approach by profiling his greatest projects. Spectacular new photography, texts from experts and from Bofill himself are complemented by working drawings and floor plans. At a time when prevailing styles in architecture are becoming ever more homogenous, Bofill's fantastic creations satisfy a longing for originality, personality and progressive ideals.
Download or read book Earth Architecture written by Ronald Rael and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ground we walk on and grow crops in also just happens to be the most widely used building material on the planet. Civilizations throughout time have used it to create stable warm low-impact structures. The world's first skyscrapers were built of mud brick. Paul Revere Chairman Mao and Ronald Reagan all lived in earth houses at various points in their lives and several of the buildings housing Donald Judd's priceless collection at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas are made of mud brick." "While the vast legacy of traditional and vernacular earthen construction has been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the contemporary tradition of earth architecture. Author Ronald Rael founder of Eartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth in the modern era focusing particularly on projects constructed in the last few decades that use rammed earth mud brick compressed earth cob and several other interesting techniques. Earth Architecture presents a selection of more than 40 projects that exemplify new creative uses of the oldest building material on the planet."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The New Architecture of Mexico written by John V. Mutlow and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the modern architecture the modern architecture of Mexico, with an emphasis from the early 1980s to the present day. It is particularly appropriate now, given a renewed interest in the recent modern architecture of Mexico, and as the w
Download or read book Ignacio Luis Rubi o Purificaci n Garc a written by Ignacio Rubiño and published by Servicio Publicaciones ETSA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henri Lefebvre on Space written by Lukasz Stanek and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.
Download or read book Graphical Heritage written by Luis Agustín-Hernández and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage – including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage. Consisting of two parts: “Representation and Analysis” and “Concept and Creation”, this second volume gathers selected contributions on topics ranging from graphic representation to the graphic presentation of ideas, i.e. artistic creation, to bridge the gap between graphic heritage and the graphics of heritage. Given its scope, this volume will appeal to architectural and graphic designers, artists and engineers, providing them with extensive information on new methods and a source of inspiration for future research and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Download or read book Carlos Ferrater written by Carlos Ferrater and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete monograph on the career of Carlos Ferrater. Carlos Ferrater's early buildings showed how the expression of modern architecture -- with its abstraction, repetition, transparency and use of industrial materials -- could be brought into line with Mediterranean classicism, with the rigor of the composition. Before setting up in 2006, along with Xavier Martí, Lucía Ferrater and Borja Ferrater, the Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Carlos Ferrater developed an intense and prolonged professional career on his own since 1971, with his advanced project for the Instant City. Now we present this first and therefore complete monograph on the unique career of this Catalan architect, Carlos Ferrater, awarded the 2009 National Architecture Award by the Spanish Ministry of Housing for his overall career and since 2011 member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (International RIBA Fellowship). The book reflects Carlos Ferrater professional practice, having proved his worth in many projects of enormous relevance and distinction.
Download or read book Mexico City written by Michelle Galindo and published by teNeues. This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide offers an extensive trip to 72 of the most recent constructions in the pulsating Mexico City. Compiling outstanding architectural and interior design projects from Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon (Museo de Arte Popular), Taller de Arquitectura X/Alberto Kalach (Biblioteca Vasconcelos), TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten (Chopo Museum), as well as the newest hotels, restaurants, shops, and public projects. Informative texts, addresses and a map are included.
Download or read book The Past is a Foreign Country written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Download or read book Victor Rahola Aguade written by Juan Miguel Otxotorena and published by Servicio Publicaciones ETSA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture written by R. Stephen Sennott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A balance of sophistication and clarity in the writing, authoritative entries, and strong cross-referencing that links archtects and structures to entries on the history and theory of the profession make this an especially useful source on a century of the world's most notable architecture. The contents feature major architects, firms, and professional issues; buildings, styles, and sites; the architecture of cities and countries; critics and historians; construction, materials, and planning topics; schools, movements, and stylistic and theoretical terms. Entries include well-selected bibliographies and illustrations."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.
Download or read book Makers of 20th Century Modern Architecture written by Donald Leslie Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in 20th-century modernist architecture including Wright, Eisenman, Mies van der Rohe and Kahn. It describes the milieu in which they practiced their art and directs readers to information on the life and creative activities of these founding architects and their disciples. The profiles of individual architects include critical analysis of their major buildings and projects. Each profile is completed by a comprehensive bibliography.
Download or read book Radical Pedagogies written by Beatriz Colomina and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice. In the decades after World War II, new forms of learning transformed architectural education. These radical experiments sought to upend disciplinary foundations and conventional assumptions about the nature of architecture as much as they challenged modernist and colonial norms, decentered building, imagined new roles for the architect, and envisioned participatory forms of practice. Although many of the experimental programs were subsequently abandoned, terminated, or assimilated, they nevertheless helped shape and in some sense define architectural discourse and practice. This book explores and documents these radical pedagogies and efforts to defy architecture’s status quo. The experiments include the adaptation of Bauhaus pedagogy as a means of “unlearning” under the conditions of decolonization in Africa; a movement to design for “every body,” including the disabled, by architecture students and faculty at the University of California, Berkeley; the founding of a support network for women interested in the built environment, regardless of their academic backgrounds; and a design studio in the USSR that offered an alternative to the widespread functionalist approach in Soviet design. Viewed through their dissolution and afterlife as well as through their founding stories, these projects from the last century raise provocative questions about architecture’s role in the new century.
Download or read book Architectural Graphics written by Manuel A. Ródenas-López and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on several advances in architectural graphics, with a special emphasis on education, training and research. It gathers a selection of contributions to the 19th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2022, held on June 2–4, 2022, in Cartagena, Spain, with the motto: "Beyond drawings. The use of architectural graphics".
Download or read book Alberto Kalach Work written by Miquel Adrià and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the work and vision of one of Mexico's most acclaimed contemporary architects Mexican architect Alberto Kalach (born 1960) founded Taller de Arquitectura X (TAX) in 1981, and for more than 35 years the firm's work has produced a wide range of projects: from private commissions to public buildings, from solutions for confined spaces to urban planning problems. The scale of the commission may vary, but the approach remains the same, always driven by a sense of curiosity and experimentation; TAX describes itself as somewhere between "a lab, a greenhouse and learning team." Rather than adhering to a specific style, TAX's constancy is methodological and conceptual, allowing the studio to be prolific, versatile and consistent simultaneously. The studio's work has long been motivated by Kalach's concerns about--and research into--the particular challenges and problems of his native Mexico City. To this end he has designed a minimalist house that can be built for $5,000, the largest public library in Latin America and an ambitious proposed plan to restore Mexico City's ancient lakes (which remains unrealized). Alberto Kalach: Work is an extensive compilation of more than 100 of TAX's built and unbuilt projects. Illustrated with architectural photographs by Iwan Baan and Jaime Navarro as well as Kalach's personal diagrams and drawings, this volume introduces readers to the work and vision of one of Mexico's most acclaimed contemporary architects.
Download or read book Civil Engineering written by Francisco Asensio Cerver and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the controversial relationship between engineering, architecture, and landscaping, this volume surveys a series of extraordinarily interesting projects produced in various parts of the world. The outstanding profiles range from the Crosby Arboretum in Picayne, Mississippi, by Edward L. Blake, Jr. to the restoration projects by Richard Haag, including Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington, and the Bloedel Reserve in Bainbridge Island, Washington. A full ten pages is devoted to the construction of the General Hitchcock Highway by Joanne Gallaher and Sarah Davis in Tucson, Arizona.
