Le Corbusier

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.

En la línea de Jane Jacobs en Muerte y vida de las ciudades y de Edward Glaeser en El triunfo de la ciudad, Jonathan F. P. Rose, un visionario en el ámbito del desarrollo urbano, aboga por el papel de las ciudades para abordar los desafíos ambientales, económicos y sociales del siglo XXI. Las ciudades son la cuna de la civilización; centros de cultura, comercio y progreso, es en ellas donde se fraguan las oportunidades y, hacia el año 2080, ellas serán también donde viva el ochenta por ciento de la población mundial. A medida que avance el siglo XXI, las áreas metropolitanas...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.