DIVERSAS MANERAS DE MIRAR EL PAISAJE

The work of the Colombian architect Harold Martínez Espinal, shows a way to purposeful way of thinking the architecture in the suburbs. This book makes a journey from his first works in the 1960's and 1970's, determined by the influence of modern architecture, until the beginning of the second millennium where his thought continues.

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...

Este trabajo se considera como una aproximación y no como una introducción, lo que significa que sólo nos acerca a esta disciplina. Es decir, nos interesará conocerla en su unicidad, en su entorno e interfase, en sus modos genéricos, sus categorías y, en su rol en el conjunto de las ciencias. Se convierte así en una pretensión en alto grado operativa: la de señalar a los arquitectos y a los gestores urbanos la presencia, insoslayable, de un cuerpo de conocimientos racional, ordenado y sistemático que se ocupa de la destinataria de nuestro hacer, la sociedad. De su ser y sus...

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.