Individual Architect category: 202 books

O arquiteto santista Abrahão Sanovicz, discípulo de João Batista Vilanova Artigas na FAU-USP, se notabilizou por projetar teatros, centros de lazer, conjuntos habitacionais, escolas, casas e edifícios. O desenho, principal ferramenta de um arquiteto, também foi utilizado por Sanovicz para criar...

Hat der Architekt alle Freiheiten des Künstlers? Wie modern muss ein Haus sein? Und warum ist Stuck aus Beton ein Verbrechen? Scharfzüngig geht der berühmte und für seine Polemiken berüchtigte Architekt Adolf Loos mit seinen Zeitgenossen ins Gericht. In seinen Essays geht er weit über Architekturthemen...

« Nous le voyons : l’œuvre de Matta-Clark remet radicalement en question le statut de l’œuvre d’art, les conventions autour desquelles nous nous accordons à reconnaître une chose comme une œuvre d’art, à telle enseigne qu’en parler comme d’une œuvre semble paradoxal. » Cyril...

An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insights...

Este libro es una reelaboración y ampliación de la 'biografía crítica' de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe publicada por Franz Schulze en 1985 (y traducida al español en 1986), que fue el primer estudio completo de este maestro de la arquitectura moderna. Con la incorporación como coautor de Edward...

Realizzato nel 2012 in seguito alla vincita da parte di Giuseppe Marinoni di un concorso internazionale, il Centro studi FLA (Fondazione Lombardia per l’Ambiente) a Seveso appare all’esterno come un volume primario, articolato da fenditure verticali e sezionato dalla facciata vetrata: quinta della...

"Eine Wiederkehr an Orte der Vergangenheit ist nur sinnvoll, wenn sie die Erinnerung an das Leben an ihnen befördert, wieder auffrischt oder neu entdecken lässt." Bruno Flierl, geboren zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik in Schlesien, aufgewachsen in Nazi-Deutschland, am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs...

Questa è la storia di un uomo che ha vissuto tre vite: Félix Candela Outeriño, uno dei progettisti/costruttori di strutture più importanti del XX secolo. Le sue numerose opere, prevalentemente coperture leggerissime (i cosiddetti “cascarones” in cemento armato), realizzate nei venti...

"I would much rather build than write about building, but when I am not building, I will write about building — or the significance of those buildings I have already built." — Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright built a body of works and drawings to illustrate and explain his work: collections...

"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident...

Manhattan es el escenario donde se representa el último acto de la civilización occidental. Con la explosión demográfica y la invasión de las nuevas tecnologías, Manhattan se ha convertido, desde mediados del siglo XIX, en el laboratorio de una nueva cultura, la de la congestión; una isla mítica...

Along with plan and elevation, section is one of the essential representational techniques of architectural design; among architects and educators, debates about a project's section are common and often intense. Until now, however, there has been no framework to describe or evaluate it. Manual of...

Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Per Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came...

"May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." — New York Times Book Review Despite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail...