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The worldwide renown architecturaloffice Pelli Clarke Pelli, founded in 1977 by Cesar Pelli, is known in particular forits elegant and technically advanced tower designs.This publication encompasses a selection of works from the past eight years such as: Bloomberg Tower in New York, Minneapolis Central Library, Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, National Museum of Art in Osaka, Xiao Bai Lo Tower in Tianjin and Torre Cajasol in Sevilla.

The work of landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates is globally renowned, from the 21st Century Waterfront in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to London's 2012 Olympic Park. Founded by George Hargreaves in 1983, this team of designers has transformed numerous abandoned sites into topographically and functionally diverse landscapes. Hargreaves Associates' body of work reflects the socioeconomic and legislative changes that have impacted landscape architecture over the past three decades, particularly the availability of former industrial sites and their subsequent redevelopment into parks....

Vom Wettbewerb uber den Entwurf bis zur Planung: Architekten und Ingenieure von Anfang an als Team

The "Metropolitan Museum Journal," issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum s collections and the areas of investigation they represent. Volume 47 includes essays on the Tell Basta Treausure, Two Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Sargon II, the "Cloisters Annunciation" by the Master of Charles of France, Canvas Matches in Vermeer: a Case Study in the Computer Analysis of Fabric Supports, New Findings on the Life and Work of Claude Simpol (1666 ca. 1710), "The Bellange Album" and New Discoveries in French Nineteenth-Century...

Puesto que la siguio durante toda su vida, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) debia apreciar la maxima de Socrates, el gran filosofo griego: "una vida sin examen no tiene objeto de vivirla para el hombre." En sus libros, en sus conferencias, incluso en sus conversaciones informales, Neutra reexaminaba constantemente no solo su propia vida, sino tambien la vida de los demas - presente y pasada - y el mundo, natural y humano, en que habitaban. En ningun otro lugar se hace esto mas patente que en "Vida y forma," su autobiografia publicada por primera vez en 1962, y que ahora, tras anos de estar...

The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genre has been visibly in decline. It is now evident that the Christmas card was a culturally specific artifact, a distinctive way in which a fundamental human gesture could be expressed within a commercial, materialistic, and rapidly changing society.

This stylish book explores the imagery, graphic forms, subject matter, and significance of...

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects.

This second book in the unprecedented series examines Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip.

In Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas you can hear the...

James Stirling (1924-1992) was, arguably, the most influential and controversial post-war British architect. Stirling's reputation is based primarily on such seminal buildings as the Leicester University Engineering Building (1959-63, with James Gowan), at one end of his career, and the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1977-83, with Michael Wilford) at the other. Although he denied both labels, his work is seen as central to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism and his buildings attracted commentary and theory from the leading architectural thinkers of the day (including Frampton, Tafuri,...

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is arguably the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that he designed no permanent buildings in the United Kingdom, more than any other individual he was responsible for shaping British post-war architecture.

Le Corbusier and Britain traces the growing awareness of work by this visionary figure in contemporary architecture journals and the popular press. Contributions by such prominent architects and critics as Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Read, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Smithson, Jane Drew, Basil Spence and Christopher Booker are...

The architect, Lina Bo Bardi (1914 1992), has long been considered one of the major modern architects of the twentieth century in Brazil. Her iconic Museum of Art of Sao Paulo (1968), and the bold, Social Service for Commerce Building-Pompeia, Sao Paulo (1986), have gained recognition in recent years and her reputation is beginning to be acknowledged internationally. Bo Bardi s major writings on architecture, however, have not been translated, and are not well known.

This book contains the first English-language translation of Propeadeutic Contribution to the Teaching of Architecture...

• Brings together essays that focus on the interface between the art object, its site of display, and the viewing public.
  
• Tackles issues confronting the museum community and seeks to further the debate between theory and practice.
  
• Presents a...