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100 Contemporary Architects: Drawings and Sketchesby Bill LacyISBN 0810936615 (0-8109-3661-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Alexander 'Greek' Thomsonby Gavin Stamp, Philip SayerISBN 1856691616 (1-85669-161-6)
Hardcover, Antique Collectors Club Ltd
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Alvaro Sizaby Philip JodidioISBN 3822830119 (3-8228-3011-9)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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Ando, Architectby Kazukiyo MatsubaISBN 4770021712 (4-7700-2171-2)
Hardcover, Kodansha America, Incorporated
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Andrea Palladio 1508-1580: Architect Between the Renaissance and Baroqueby Thomas Pape, Andrea Palladio, Paolo Marton, Manfred WundramISBN 3822802719 (3-8228-0271-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrea Palladio 1508-1580: Architect Between the Renaissance and Baroque'Book summary:[via]With this introduction to the work of Andrea Palladio (1508 1580), TASCHEN Basic Architecture series shines its spotlight on one of the most influential figures in the history of Western architecture. Palladios Villa Rotonda in Vicenza became the most famous building of its kind; it influenced many later designs and remains an important source of inspiration for todays architects. The Palladian style, distinguished by the typical Serlian windows, pillared faades resembling Roman temples, symmetrical floor plans, and elevations, was imported to other European countries and became widely known; in Great Britain it was one the important roots of 17th and 18th century architecture. In the 19th century, American architecture heavily referred to the style, as seen in, for example, Thomas Jefferson Monticello home.More editions of Andrea Palladio 1508-1580: Architect Between the Renaissance and Baroque:
Antoine Predock : Bldgs 1994-99by Antoine PredockISBN 0847821390 (0-8478-2139-0)
Softcover, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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Antoni Gaudiby Peter Gossel, Maria Antonietta CrippaISBN 3822825182 (3-8228-2518-2)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Antoni Gaudiby Rainer Zerbst, Francois Rene RonaldISBN 3822870773 (3-8228-7077-3)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antoni Gaudi'Book summary:This guidebook is a travelling companion for those setting out to explore the creations of Carlo Scarpa, a Venetian architect. The introductory essay is followed by a complete catalogue of the buildings he built. [via]
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Barragan : The Complete Worksby Paul RispaISBN 1568983220 (1-56898-322-0)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barragan : The Complete Works'Book summary:Mexican architect Luis Barragan (1902-88) was one of the twentieth centurys most creative designers and one of its best-known architects. Self-taught, he achieved international renown for his remarkable personal artistic vision. Using vegetation, water, primary geometric forms, and vivid colors, Barragan created a poetic and painterly yet elegantly simple architectural style that transformed the Mexican building tradition into an abstract architectural language.
This revised edition of our best-selling monograph the first comprehensive compilation of Barragans work (102 buildings and 12 additional projects) contains new photographs and an updated bibliography. Its intelligent analyses and superb illustrations demonstrate the complexity and scope of this genius, as both an architect and a landscape designer.
Barragan The Complete Works collects over 300 illustrations including Barragans drawings; photographs of his work; re-drawn plans, elevations, and scale models of important projects; texts by Alvaro Siza, Antonio Toca, and J. M. Buendia, as well as an essay by Barragan himself; and an unabridged transcription of his Pritzker Prize acceptance speech. this book is the essential compendium on the work of this great master architect. [via]More editions of Barragan : The Complete Works:
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Be Your Own Architectby Gene B. WilliamsISBN 0830633367 (0-8306-3336-7)
Softcover, Tab Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Be Your Own Architect'Book summary:This illustrated guide shows prospective home buyers just how easy it is to design homes to fit their exact needs and wants, while saving thousands of dollars in architectural fees. It covers choosing and using drafting tools, selecting energy-efficient materials, laying out rooms to maximize space, and more. [via]
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Breaking Ground: Adventures in Life and Architectureby Daniel Libeskind, Sarah CrichtonISBN 1573222925 (1-57322-292-5)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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Breaking Ground: An Immigrant's Journey from Poland to Ground Zeroby Daniel Libeskind, Sarah CrichtonISBN 1594481326 (1-59448-132-6)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architectureby Ross KingISBN 0802713661 (0-8027-1366-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture'Book summary:Filippo Brunelleschi's design for the dome of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence remains one of the most towering achievements of Renaissance architecture. Completed in 1436, the dome remains a remarkable feat of design and engineering. Its span of more than 140 feet exceeds St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome, and even outdoes the Capitol in Washington, D.C., making it the largest dome ever constructed using bricks and mortar. The story of its creation and its brilliant but "hot-tempered" creator is told in Ross King's delightful Brunelleschi's Dome.
Both dome and architect offer King plenty of rich material. The story of the dome goes back to 1296, when work began on the cathedral, but it was only in 1420, when Brunelleschi won a competition over his bitter rival Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the daunting cupola, that work began in earnest. King weaves an engrossing tale from the political intrigue, personal jealousies, dramatic setbacks, and sheer inventive brilliance that led to the paranoid Filippo, "who was so proud of his inventions and so fearful of plagiarism," finally seeing his dome completed only months before his death. King argues that it was Brunelleschi's improvised brilliance in solving the problem of suspending the enormous cupola in bricks and mortar (painstakingly detailed with precise illustrations) that led him to "succeed in performing an engineering feat whose structural daring was without parallel." He tells a compelling, informed story, ranging from discussions of the construction of the bricks, mortar, and marble that made up the dome, to its subsequent use as a scientific instrument by the Florentine astronomer Paolo Toscanelli. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Carlos Jimenez : Buildingsby Carlos JiménezISBN 1885232055 (1-885232-05-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carlos Jimenez : Buildings'Book summary:This is the first monograph published in the United States on Carlos Jimenez, whose work has been linked to the new wave of Spanish architects as well as to Latin American architects such as Luis Barragan. Jimenez's buildings are known for their purity of form, use of bold color, and sophisticated ordering of spaces. His simple geometries allow light to define and animate his otherwise tranquil interiors.
This monograph presents eight of the architect's most stunning projects, including the headquarters for the Houston Fine Arts Press, the new Spencer Studio Art Building at Williams College in Massachusetts, the Central Administration Building of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Jimenez's own house and studio complex.
Richly illustrated throughout with photographs, plans, and drawings, the book includes an introduction by Rafael Moneo, an essay by historian Stephen Fox, and a postscript by Lars Lerup, as well as complete project documentation.
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City of the Mind: A Novelby Joe CartwrightISBN 0802140203 (0-8021-4020-3)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of the Mind: A Novel'Book summary:Penelope Lively is one of England's greatest living writers. In City of the Mind, Matthew Halland is an architect intimately involved with the new face of London, while haunted by the destruction and loss in its history. Matthew has a rich and moving relationship with his daughter Jane, and becomes entangled with an array of fascinating characters, from Rutter, a corrupt real estate developer whose Mafia-like ways disgust him, to Sarah, a romantic ray of hope who enters his life. In Lively's most ambitious novel, she has created a wonderfully rich and audacious confrontation with the mystery of London.[via]More editions of City of the Mind: A Novel:
The Colours of Light: Tadao Ando Architectureby Richard Pare, Tadao Ando, Tom HeneghanISBN 0714833746 (0-7148-3374-6)
Hardcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Complexity and Contradictionby Robert VenturiISBN 0870702823 (0-87070-282-3)
Softcover, Museum of Modern Art
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architectureby Robert VenturiISBN 0810960230 (0-8109-6023-0)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'Book summary:First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. As Venturi's ""gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,"" Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards. [via]
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Corbusierby JeanLouis CohenISBN 3822835358 (3-8228-3535-8)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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Deciderby Dick FrancisISBN 0330335685 (0-330-33568-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decider'Book summary:[via]Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
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Environmental Alchemy: Randall Stout Architectsby Joseph Giovannini, Randall StoutISBN 1931536228 (1-931536-22-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country Houseby Edgar KaufmannISBN 0896596621 (0-89659-662-1)
Hardcover, Abbeville Pr
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Fallingwater : The Architectural Modelby Paul BonfilioISBN 0847823415 (0-8478-2341-5)
Hardcover, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fallingwater : The Architectural Model'Book summary:At first blush, the title has the same desperate ring as McDonald's: The Tofuburger or Disney: The Diaper--they couldn't think of another angle for a book about Fallingwater, the 1937 Pennsylvania house that still ranks as perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous and loved project, so they decided to do a book about the model of Fallingwater? Jeez! Such were my thoughts until I started leafing through this absolutely fascinating little book by Paul Bonfilio, the Madame Tussaud of architectural model-makers, who has created miniature reproductions of architectural landmarks (among them Johnson's Glass House, Neutra's Lovell House, and Mies's Barcelona Pavilion) for the permanent collection of NYC's Museum of Modern Art. Here, Bonfilio walks you through the process of re-creating on a Lilliputian scale this most complicated and beguiling of modernist houses--a job he completed for the MoMA in the early 1980s, only to do it again a few years later for a private commission. His painstaking narration, black-and-white photographs of each stage of the model's creation, and Ted Spagna's excellent photographs of the real house (shot expressly for Bonfilio to use in planning out his work) all work together splendidly here. Anyone who ever found satisfaction in the minutely focused process of assembling a model car or airplane will be completely absorbed by Bonfilio's quest to reproduce with unstinting detail and realism the diverse textures of Wright's masterpiece, from the complex stonework of its inner and outer walls to the dazzling sheen of the waterfall over which the front of the structure so famously perches.
But even better than that, Bonfilio's loving chronicle of taking Fallingwater apart and putting it back together again, as it were, accomplishes something that dozens of other books on this iconic house fail to do: it gets us to look at the house and its complex topography, its every elevation and surface, corner, and detail--as well as the choices, inspired and imprudent, that Wright made in designing it--with a fresh new eye. It's almost like having an investment in its original creation, figuring out step by step how to build a house around a boulder, cantilever it over a waterfall, build half the furniture right into it, and somehow make the whole thing work structurally and look drop-dead gorgeous at the same time. Oh, and the book's end papers are matched to the same Cherokee-red paint that Wright used in the house--the perfect swaddling for this unexpectedly delightful little volume's embarrassment of riches. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Fog: Flowing in a Directionby Frank Owen GehryISBN 0974198706 (0-9741987-0-6)
Hardcover, Ram Pubns & Dist
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The Forsyte Sagaby John GalsworthyISBN 1404350578 (1-4043-5057-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forsyte Saga'Book summary:When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The Forsyte Saga comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let, is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time in a single volume. Initially, the narrative centres on Soames Forsyte - a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a 'Man of Property', but beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination, creating a feud within the family that will have far-reaching consequences. [via]
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Fountainheadby Ayn RandISBN 0451191153 (0-451-19115-3)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fountainhead'Book summary:The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. [via]
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Hardcover, Plume - Fountainhead: ISBN 0451175123 (0-451-17512-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Fountainhead: ISBN 0026009102 (0-02-600910-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fountainhead: ISBN 0452283760 (0-452-28376-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA - Fountainhead: ISBN 0684869713 (0-684-86971-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Fountainhead: ISBN 0808519387 (0-8085-1938-7)
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Frank Lloyd Wrightby Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Peter Gössel, Gabriele LeuthauserISBN 382282030X (3-8228-2030-X)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank Lloyd Wright'Book summary:The American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) exerted unique influence on the architecture of the first half of the 20th century. This volume presents the whole range of his extraordinarily prolific output and shows clearly how his view of the world was a common factor throughout the rich diversity of his oeuvre. From his early prairie houses to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Frank Lloyd Wright saw man as the focal point of an architecture closely bound up with nature. [via]
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Frank Lloyd Wrightby Frank Lloyd Wright, Peter Gossel, Gabriele Leuthauser, Bruce Brooks PfeifferISBN 382289754X (3-8228-9754-X)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank Lloyd Wright'Book summary:The American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) exerted a unique influence on the architecture of the first half of the 20th century. This volume presents the whole range of his extraordinarily profilic output and shows clearly how his view of the world was a common factor throughout the rich diversity of his oeuvre. From his early prairie houses to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Frank Lloyd Wright saw man as the focal point of an architecture closely bound up with nature. [via]
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Frank Lloyd Wrightby Peter Gossel, Bruce Brooks PfeifferISBN 3822827576 (3-8228-2757-6)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Frank O. Gehryby Francesco Dal Co, Kurt Forster, Hadley Soutter ArnoldISBN 1885254636 (1-885254-63-6)
Hardcover, Monacelli Press, Incorporated
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Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Worksby Francesco Dal Co, Kurt W. ForsterISBN 1904313159 (1-904313-15-9)
Softcover, Electa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works'Book summary:Ever since his wildly dramatic Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, opened in 1997, Frank Gehry has been widely and justifiably considered the leading architect of our time. Although this ascension occurred seemingly overnight, it actually took more than half a century, counting architecture school and work in eight other offices before he opened his own firm in 1962. Since then, Gehry's designs have become increasingly freer and more inventive. He first explored existing design approaches such as Frank Lloyd Wright's, Southern California vernacular, minimalist modernism, and Miesian structuralism before blazing his own trail. This included corrugated cardboard furniture, chain-link fencing, unfinished metal siding, exposed wood studs, and other "cheapskate" materials; skewed geometries; and a recurring preoccupation with fishlike building forms. He learned to fragment buildings into discrete components (often making each room a structure unto itself), experiment with color, create forced perspectives, and, above all, bring natural light indoors masterfully. His recent designs tend to be baroque and romantic in ways never before seen, often resembling sails or abstracted flowers. Gehry's architecture is an art that involves great risk taking, and while not every design succeeds fully, his courage is exemplary and his batting average is surprisingly high.
For readers who truly want to know about Gehry, The Complete Works is indispensable. It documents 250 works, even early ones that other architects might conveniently omit, and the material is well illustrated on 614 oversized pages. Insightful essays by two eminent architectural scholars set the stage for this massive and unrivaled traversal of Gehry's designs. --John Pastier [via]
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Gaudi: 1852-1926 Antoni Gaudi i Cornet - A Life Devoted to Architectureby Rainer ZerbstISBN 3822800740 (3-8228-0074-0)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaudi: 1852-1926 Antoni Gaudi i Cornet - A Life Devoted to Architecture'Book summary:The complete works of the great Antoni Gaudi (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Antoni Gaudi - the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain, it was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works, including villas for the well-to-do bourgeoisle, the expansive Guell Park (which today is open to the public), and the famous church designed in honour of the Holy Family - a project which was begun over 100 years ago and has yet to be completed. Antoni Gaudi's life was full of contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of one single church. As a young man Gaudi had a liking for the glamour of social life and the looks of a dandy; in old age, on the other hand, he lived a spartan life. Gaudi never married and devoted his life entirely to his art: architecture. His works have been acclaimed as "soothing oases in a desert of functional buildings," as "precious gems in the uniform grey of rows of houses," and the master himself was acclaimed as the "Dante of architecture". This book provides a sweeping study of his entire career, presenting his complete works via texts and illustrations. [via]
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Gaudí of Barcelonaby Luis Permanyer, Melba LevickISBN 0847820629 (0-8478-2062-9)
Hardcover, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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Gaudi : The Complete Buildingsby Rainer ZerbstISBN 3822840726 (3-8228-4072-6)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaudi : The Complete Buildings'Book summary:A detailed description of Antoni Gaudí - the man and his work
Wherever they go, anyone who visits Barcelona today will come across the works of Antoni Gaudí - the architect who has attracted art-lovers from all over the world to Spain. It was here, in the capital of Catalonia, that the famous master of architecture produced nearly all of his works. Villas for the well-to-do bourgeoisie, the expansive Güell Park (which today is open to the public), and the famous church designed in honour of the Holy Family - a project which was begun over 100 years ago and has yet to be completed.
Antoni Gaudí's life was full of contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of one single church. As a young man Gaudí had a liking for the glamour of social life and the looks of a dandy; in old age, on the other hand, he lived a spartan life.
Antoni Gaudí never married and devoted his life entirely to his art - architecture. His works have been acclaimed as "soothing oases in a desert of functional buildings", as "precious gems in the uniform grey of rows of houses," and the master himself was acclaimed as the "Dante of architecture".
This book provides a detailed description of Gaudí the man and his work. The complete works are documented in a wide range of colour photos. [via]
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Gyroscopic Horizonsby Neil M. DenariISBN 187827113X (1-878271-13-X)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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The Heart of the Matter: Stamboul Train ; A Burnt-Out Case ; The Third Man ; The Quiet American ; Loser Takes All ; The Power and the Gloryby Graham GreeneISBN 0905712013 (0-905712-01-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann/Octopus
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Herzog & De Meuron, 1992v1996: The Complete Works/ Das Gesantwerkby Gerhard MacKISBN 3764371129 (3-7643-7112-9)
Hardcover, Birkhauser
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Hodgetts + Fung: Scenarios and Spacesby Kurt Forster, Kurt Walter ForsterISBN 0847818128 (0-8478-1812-8)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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Hundertwasser: The Painter-King With the 5 Skinsby Pierre Restany, HundertwasserISBN 3822876410 (3-8228-7641-0)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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If Only It Were Trueby Marc LevyISBN 1416513116 (1-4165-1311-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Joseph Paxton: An Illustrated Life of Sir Joseph Paxton, 1803-1865by John AnthonyISBN 0852632088 (0-85263-208-8)
Hardcover, Shire Publications
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Kunsthaus Bregenzby Friedrich Achleitner, Peter Zumthor, Helene BinetISBN 3775707204 (3-7757-0720-4)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Le Corbusier.by FranüCoise ChoayISBN 0807601047 (0-8076-0104-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architectureby David B. Brownlee, David Gilson De LongISBN 0847813304 (0-8478-1330-4)
Softcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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Louis I. Kahn: In the Relam of Architecture Condensedby David B. Brownlee, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), David G. De Long, David Gilson De Long, Grant MudfordISBN 0789300990 (0-7893-0099-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis I. Kahn: In the Relam of Architecture Condensed'Book summary:This condensed edition of Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture is a definitive and richly illustrated volume that presents the oeuvre of one of this century's most influential practitioners, teachers, and thinkers in architecture. Here is the detailed account of the architecture and philosophy of Louis Kahn, whose buildings have become the very signature of the modernist aesthetic and whose vision permanently changed the direction of American architecture.[via]
Kahn's career is documented here with meticulous attention to all aspects of his work-- from his own fascinating biography to the unique philosophy that underlies his buildings to the structures themselves. The stunning range of Kahn's architectural vision becomes fully apparent: his structures are at once solemn and resonant, elemental and musical. Extraordinary, exclusively commissioned color photographs of his masterworks-- the Yale Center for British Art, the National Assembly complex at Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Kimbell Art Museum, the Indian Institute of Management, the Salk Institute-- exquisitely demonstrate how Kahn's architecture wholly reinvents space and light. In all, more than two hundred illustrations, including numerous drawings and floor plans, accompany the painstakingly researched text.
This volume-- published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and with the exclusive participation of the Louis I. Kahn Collection-- contains six principal essays that critically address different dimensions and periods of Kahn's architecture. The essays and photography are accompanied by succinct notes and captions, as well as a complete list of buildings and projects and an index, making this book the preeminent scholarly and illustrative source for Kahn's architecture.More editions of Louis I. Kahn: In the Relam of Architecture Condensed:
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Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworksby Louis I. Kahn, Kent Larson, Vincent Joseph ScullyISBN 158093014X (1-58093-014-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks'Book summary:American architect Louis I. Kahn left behind a legacy of great buildings: the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; and the Indian Institute for Management in Ahmedabad. Yet he also left behind an equally important legacy of designs that were never realized. This exceptional volume unites those unbuilt projects with the most advanced computer-graphics technologythe first fundamentally new tool for studying space since the development of perspective in the Renaissanceto create a beautiful and poignant vision of what might have been.
Author Kent Larson has delved deep into Kahn's extensive archives to construct faithful computer models of a series of proposals the architect was not able to build: the U.S. Consulate in Luanda, Angola; the Meeting House of the Salk Institute in La Jolla; the Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia; the Memorial to Six Million Jewish Martyrs in New York City; three proposals for the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem; and the Palazzo dei Congressi in Venice. The resulting computer-generated images present striking views of real buildings in real sites. Each detail is exquisitely rendered, from complex concrete textures to subtle interreflections and patterns of sunlight and shadow.
Kahn's famous statement"I thought of wrapping ruins around buildings"is borne out by the views of his unbuilt works; his rigorous exploration of tactility and sensation, light and form, is equally evident. Complementing the new computer images is extensive archival materialrough preliminary drawings, finely delineated plans, and beautiful travel sketches. Larson also presents fascinating documentation of each project, often including correspondence with the clients that shows not only the deep respect accorded the architect but the complicated circumstances that sometimes made it impossible to bring a design to fruition. Not only a historical study of Kahn's unbuilt works, this volume is in itself an intriguing alternative history of architecture. [via]More editions of Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks:
Louis I. Khan : Complete Worksby Klaus-Peter GastISBN 3421032947 (3-421-03294-7)
Hardcover, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH
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Mansions in the Clouds: The Skyscraper Palazzi of Emery Rothby Steven RuttenbaumISBN 0917439090 (0-917439-09-0)
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Mario Bottaby Philip JodidioISBN 3822823449 (3-8228-2344-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Mario Bottaby Aurora CuitoISBN 3823845373 (3-8238-4537-3)
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Mario Botta: The Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center, Tel Aviv UniversityISBN 1584230924 (1-58423-092-4)
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Mario Botta/Spanish/Englishby Emilio PizziISBN 8425214483 (84-252-1448-3)
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Mathematical Analysisby NaISBN 0817661018 (0-8176-6101-8)
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MoMA QNS: Looking Aheadby Terence RileyISBN 0870706853 (0-87070-685-3)
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On Tour With Renzo Pianoby Renzo PianoISBN 0714843415 (0-7148-4341-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Tour With Renzo Piano'Book summary:A personal tour through some of the key buildings by the Renzo Piano Workshop. Each project is introduced with text by Renzo Piano himself and colour photographs take the reader on a visual guide around each building. This book features 25 built projects presented chronologically, starting from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and including the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, the Potsdamer Platz masterplan in Berlin and the Renzo Piano Workshop in Genoa. The book will be published in English, French, German and Italian. Renzo Piano - winner of the Pritzker Prize, 1998 - is an architect whose work seems increasingly relevant to our times. Always challenging and surprising, each new design never fails to be innovative and exciting and to capture the imagination of his admirers. One of the few architects to be intimately involved in each stage of a building's development, from its concept and masterplan to its construction and detailing, Renzo's insights into his own projects are revealing and insightful. In this new publication, the reader is offered the rare opportunity to experience the key buildings of the Workshop with Renzo Piano himself. Featuring approximately 25 built projects, Renzo Piano introduces each building through personal text, followed by a photographic guide which takes the reader from the external to the internal of each project on a frame by frame tour. Projects featured range from urban works such as the Potsdamer Platz masterplan, to the acclaimed Beyeler Foundation and the Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia. The Renzo Piano Building Workshop is characterized by its sensitivity to site and local tradition as well as by its combination of traditional materials and techniques with those from the cutting edge of technology. [via]
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Parallaxby Steven HollISBN 1568982615 (1-56898-261-5)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parallax'Book summary:Steven Holl is probably a pretty cool architect. With its clean, racy curves both inside and out, his recent Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (and biggest project to date) in Helsinki looks like an artfully cut-out chunk of a late '50s sports car, or better yet--given its minty-blue tones and au courant materials--a huge iMac. His very intimate Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle (about which he published a previous book, The Chapel of St. Ignatius; he's also put out Anchoring and Intertwining), with its exterior reflecting pool and beguiling interior play of light, curves, and color couldn't be more iconoclastic for a Catholic house of worship, yet it exudes a queer grace in the same spirit as Le Corbusier's famous Chapel at Ronchamp. And surely the banks of Boston's Charles River have never seen anything like the dormitory complex Noll has designed for MIT--the model of which, included here, promises a multicube city unto itself with an intricate, discontinuous façade of overlapping grids and screens, so radical in concept that it defies written description (or a really good one, at any rate).
And yet the reason why the very chicly designed Parallax (with a list price of $40, it's probably the world's most expensive cardboard-covered book) only probably affirms that Holl is a cool architect is that there are simply not enough full-color photographs of his completed work here to tell. Holl is a very conceptual architect, and most of the pages here contain what he refers to as his "liner notes" on his projects--leaden, humorless meditations on such themes as "chemistry of matter," "pressure of light," "strange attractors," and "porosity" as they relate to his work. Beyond that, there's a profusion of computer renderings, simple sketches, and tiny black-and-white photographs of small portions that, alas, also do very little to illuminate his work for the reader.
What little color photography is offered here is excellent, going a long way even in its paucity toward suggesting why Holl has already created a stir (and you can click on our unique Look inside this book! link below the cover image to get a sense of it). Just one limited shot of even a modest project like his 1996 Ikebana House in Makuhari, Japan, seizes the eye with its almost astonishing manipulation of color, texture, and curvature, leaving the beholder hungry for more. If you're already familiar with Holl's work and really curious about his scientific-minded musings on them, you'll appreciate Parallax. Otherwise, keep your fingers crossed that in the next book of his work, Holl shows more and tells less. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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Rem Koolhaas: Projects for Pradaby Rem Koolhaas, Miuccia Prada, Patrizio BertelliISBN 8887029180 (88-87029-18-0)
Softcover, Fondazione Prada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rem Koolhaas: Projects for Prada'Book summary:Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's firm, OMA, and Italian fashion house Prada have a lot in common: They both existed for years before they became the pets of the American moneyed elite in the mid to late 1990s. They both eschew conventional notions of what's elegant or pleasing to the eye--Koolhaas's designs often look like post-industrial origami, and Prada's like uniforms for a really chic neo-Fascist army. Most of all, they're both poised for a transition from designerati darlings to global household words.
For all of these reasons, one supposes it's fitting that Miuccia Prada sought out Koolhaas and associates to design three new "epicenter" stores for the company--in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco--and to create Prada's Web site. They've documented that collaboration in this hefty, molto stile paperback that illustrates how they've rethought the shopping experience in ways both high-flown (in NYC, a shoe section that converts to a theater for performances and other "non-shopping events"; an electronic customer-identification/service system that either promises or threatens to track shoppers and their "needs" more closely than the FBI's) and cleverly common-sensical (dressing rooms with simultaneous, digitally-produced front, back and side-views, phones for requesting another size, and walls you can shift from translucent--so you can model for your friends--to frosted, for privacy).
Design-wise, the stores say "Koolhaas" as we know him so far--the facade of the San Francisco one, for example, is all perforated-looking metallic grids, and elsewhere there are shiny, swooping ceilings and walls, plus glass elevators that hover among glass floors like huge floating rooms. But most of what we see in this book is funky, moody photography of the sites' models, thickly populated by white figurines with the same unsmiling hauteur of Prada's sexy real-life runway models (not enough of which are featured here, by the way). The book's minimal text, though boldly designed, strikes a strange note somewhere between the usual half-cryptic semio-speak of Koolhaas's other books, and the oppressive language of corporate self-promotion ("Our ambition is to capture attention and then, once we have it, to hand it back to the customer."). But then, isn't that as it should be? With both Koolhaas and Prada, you often suspect that their recent stranglehold over American fashionistas and theory-queens alike is of great amusement to them. Between these pages, the joke once again might be on us, but who can't take a little joke when it's as stylishly presented as it is here?--Timothy Murphy [via]
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Renzo Piano: Logbookby Renzo PianoISBN 1885254652 (1-885254-65-2)
Softcover, Monacelli Press, Incorporated
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Rick Joy: Desert Workby Rick JoyISBN 1568983360 (1-56898-336-0)
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S,M,L,Xlby Rem KoolhausISBN 1885254865 (1-885254-86-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S,M,L,Xl'Book summary:This extraordinary, massive, and mind-boggling 1,300-page book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city--and complex illustration--with work produced by Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This almost overwhelming accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today--its splendors and miseries--exploring and revealing the corrosive effects of politics, context, the economy, and globalization. In some ways, this is the "Medium is the Message" of 1990s architectural discourse: guaranteed to be hugely influential in the coming decades, but grossly misunderstood by those who have not read it. The core arguments it makes about metropolitan architecture--accepting complexity and lack of centralized control--are similar to those of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. Very highly recommended. [via]
Santiago Calatravaby Philip JodidioISBN 3822823546 (3-8228-2354-6)
Softcover, Taschen America, LLC
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Sigurd Lewerentz: 1885 - 1975by Nicola Flora, Gennaro Postiglione, Paolo Giardiello, Colin John WilsonISBN 1904313469 (1-904313-46-9)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sigurd Lewerentz: 1885 - 1975'Book summary:This book is a monographic study of Sigurd Lewerentz, one of the major architects of the Swedish Modern School, who developed a sensitive and distinctive response to the most important architectural movements of the last century. Lewerentz was a master of religious architecture; his most remarkable designs are the chapels of St Knut and St Gertrud in the Malmo cemetery (begun in 1916), the conservation of the cathedral of Uppsala, on which he worked for nearly ten years (1947-55), and the church of St Peter at Klippan (1962-6). The first section of the volume includes a critical essay by Colin St John Wilson and a previously unpublished essay on the work of the Swedish master by Nicola Flora, Paolo Giardiello and Gennaro Postiglione. The central section contains a catalogue of Lewerentz's works: about 150 designs and constructions, in chronological order, are presented through detailed descriptions and illustrated by both photographs and drawings. A complete list of works and a bibliography based on research in the archives of Stockholm's Museum of Architecture conclude the volume. This study of Lewerentz is the most original and comprehensive published to date, with a full treatment of unbuilt projects as well as completed buildings. [via]
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Situation Normalby Paul Lewis, David J. Lewis, Marc TsurumakiISBN 1568981546 (1-56898-154-6)
Softcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Situation Normal'Book summary:In this volume, the latest addition to the award-winning Pamphlet Architecture series, the authors examine common architectural forms (chairs, doors, and walls) and programs (a cinema, a health club, a skyscraper) in order to dissect and reconfigure them. In the process they create ten new projects that draw their power from an oscillation between the recognizable and the surreal. Cleverly undermining the conventions and norms of contemporary architectural design, the authors pose a direct challenge to the seemingly endless search for new styles, arguing instead that the greatest potential for architecture in the twenty-first century rests on an imaginative examination of what we take for granted. Designed by authors, Situation Normal... weaves together text, photographs, and drawings. An introductory essay establishes the theoretical and historical position of the book. [via]
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Stanford White's New Yorkby David LoweISBN 0823049140 (0-8230-4914-0)
Softcover, Watson-Guptill Pubns
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Steven Hollby Steven HollISBN 3764355352 (3-7643-5535-2)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Steven Holl Architectby Kenneth FramptonISBN 1904313027 (1-904313-02-7)
Hardcover, Electra Architecture
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Steven Holl Architect'Book summary:This is a monograph devoted to one of the leading architects on the contemporary scene. Born at Bremerton in the state of Washington in 1947, Steven Holl studied architecture at the University of Washington at Seattle, and later on in Rome and at the Architectural Association in London. He has worked both in the United States and in Europe, and a great deal in the East, especially in Japan. His most important designs, notable for their respect for the cultural and historical environment they are set in, include the Makuhari residential complex in Japan, the St Ignatius chapel of the University of Seattle, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and the extension of the Cranbrook Institute of Science at Bloomfield Hills in Michigan. Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture of Columbia University, Holl has taught courses and lectures in other institutions around the United States and abroad. He has won many awards, including the Arnold W. Brunner prize for architecture in 1990 and the Alvar Aalto medal in 1998. [via]
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Symphony: Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hallby Frank GehryISBN 0810949814 (0-8109-4981-4)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Tadao Ando: Complete Worksby Francesco Dal CoISBN 0714837172 (0-7148-3717-2)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tadao Ando : Complete Works'Book summary:Tadao Ando, one-time truck driver and boxer, is a self-taught Japanese architect whose winning of the 1995 Pritzker Prize has given him preeminence among his gifted generation. Ando reinvents Japan's architectural tradition in contemporary terms, using minimalist concrete structures of monumental scale, reminiscent of the Brutalist architecture of America's Louis Kahn. Editor Francesco Dal Co, an Italian architectural historian, has produced an excellent survey of Ando's career to date, along with a critical assessment of his work. [via]
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Tadao Ando: The Colours of Lightby Richard PareISBN 071483999X (0-7148-3999-X)
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Testamentby Frank Lloyd WrightISBN 081800004X (0-8180-0004-X)
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Thinking Architectureby Peter Zumthor, Maureen Oberli-TurnerISBN 1568981449 (1-56898-144-9)
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Visionary Architects: Boulee, Ledoux, Lequeuby Jean-Claude LemagnyISBN 0940512351 (0-940512-35-1)
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W.R. Lethaby, 1857-1931: Architecture, Design, and Educationby Sylvia Backemeyer, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, W. R. Lethaby, Theresa Gronberg, Central School of Arts and Crafts (London, England)ISBN 0853314853 (0-85331-485-3)
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Wright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel Bigby Diane MaddexISBN 0810946262 (0-8109-4626-2)
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Antoni Gaudiby Maria Antonietta CrippaISBN 3822825190 (3-8228-2519-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antoni Gaudi'Book summary:«Voulez-vous savoir où j'ai trouvé mon modèle? C'est un arbre: il se tient droit, il porte ses branches, qui portent les rameaux, qui portent les feuilles. Et chaque élément pousse harmonieusement, magnifiquement, depuis que l'artiste Dieu l'a créé.» Antoni Gaudí L'architecte espagnol Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), qui a grandi pendant la révolution industrielle, a cherché à distinguer et à réaffirmer l'identité de sa Catalogne natale alors que l'Espagne et le reste de l'Europe étaient en pleine modernisation. Ses premières réalisations néogothiques représentent le premier pas vers la maturité de son style si original qu'il porte désormais son nom. En utilisant des couleurs vives et en incorporant d'étranges fragments de matériaux dans ses réalisations, Gaudi a créé des constructions visionnaires et fascinantes qui ont (surtout grâce à la Cathédrale de la Sagrada Familia, toujours inachevée) contribué à faire de Barcelone une ville de premier plan. À propos de la collection: Chaque volume de la Petite Collection Architecture de TASCHEN contient: " près de 120 images comprenant photographies, esquisses, dessins et plans " en introduction, des textes qui explorent la vie et l'Suvre de l'architecte en abordant aussi bien " sa formation et sa vie privée que ses collaborations avec d'autres architectes " ses réalisations les plus importantes, présentées selon un ordre chronologique, accompagnées de la description des vSux du client et/ou de l'architecte ainsi que des problèmes de construction rencontrés et des solutions qui leur ont été apportées " une annexe comprenant la liste de toutes ou d'une partie de ses réalisations, une biographie, une bibliographie et une carte sur laquelle sont indiquées les constructions les plus célèbres de l'architecte [via]
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La Hora de las Brujasby Anne Rice, Silvia Komet DainISBN 8466621318 (84-666-2131-8)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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Mario Bottaby Emilio Pizzi, Mario BottaISBN 8425217180 (84-252-1718-0)
Hardcover, Gustavo Gili
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