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The Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza (b.1933) is one of the worlds most respected architects. The recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1992, Siza has ...

La expresión "arte conceptual" se concibió a mediados de la década de 1960 para designar las diversas prácticas de un grupo de artistas de renombre internacional que compartían la convicción ...

California-based artist Raymond Pettibon (b.1957) began making his signature ink-wash drawings - combinations of cartoon-like images with short, enigmatic texts - in the 1980s. Since then he has produced thousands ...

Although a contemporary of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, Gunnar Asplund pursued an architecture that does not fit easily into their view of Modernism as a movement that rejected the ...

A `design classic` is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is ...

This book offers a comprehensive account of the architecture of Florence, setting the citys extraordinarily beautiful buildings within the political, economic, and cultural contexts in which they were made. The ...

This monograph is the first to document all of the built work by Morphosis, a Los Angeles-based practice headed by Thom Mayne and one of the most influential architecture firms ...

ANDY WARHOL "GIANT" SIZE is a massive, spectacular, visual biography of the life and career of Andy Warhol. Measuring 420 x 320mm (16 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.), with 624 ...

A unique selection of books on five of the greatest experimenters of photography of all time. The box set comprises five books from the Phaidon 55 series, available for the ...

Recognized internationally for her intimate and compelling images, the American photographer Nan Goldin (b.1953) has lived and worked in Boston, New York, Berlin and in Paris, her current home. Since ...

El género tradicional de paisajismo experimentó una transformación radical en la década de 1960 cuando muchos artistas dejaron de limitarse a representarlo y pasaron a imprimir su huella directamente en ...

Una recopilación de fotografías inéditas hasta el momento y realizadas en Benín, África Occidental, entre las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Su descubrimiento abre un nuevo capítulo en la historia ...

A unique selection of books on five of the best masters of photography of all time. The box set comprises five books from the Phaidon 55 series, available for the ...