The Bauhaus Building in Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius in 1926, represents a "built manifesto of Bauhaus ideas" and is one of modernisms most important buildings. Together with the associated ...

Vaux-le-Vicomte's rich history began in 1641 when infamous French finance minister Nicolas Fouquet, the original owner, surrounded himself with the most skilled and talented artisans of the time: the architect ...

Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the ...

Gothic, Romanesque, Modernist, Metabolist... The variety of styles through architectural history can be bewildering. Whether it be a Gothic crocket or a simple Modernist join, this book illustrates all the ...

Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, ...

«Óscar Martínez nos regala lo mejor de nuestra cultura a través de un ramo de ensayos sobre puertas que revelan el nacimiento de un gran escritor». LUIS ALBERTO DE CUENCA ...

This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-century drive to provide 'homes for the people'. Vast programmes of ...

In his third and last contribution within the Bauhausbücher series, the founder and long-standing director of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, gives a comprehensive overview of the Bauhaus in Dessau. In ...

Published in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagys teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus on the preliminary course, this last book of ...

Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) was one of the most significant architects of the twentieth century and his influence is present today in ways both profound and subtle. Unlike previous publications ...

"The oldest things are the newest" - this paradoxical idea is present throughout the oeuvre of contemporary Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. In 2008, Sugimoto and the architect Tomoyuki ...

La modernidad arquitectónica necesitó una piedra de toque para verificar y legitimar su nueva arquitectura. Si pensamos en Le Corbusier, Oud o Aalto, su referente no fue la Roma de ...

Como es sabido, durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVI se fueron forjando las líneas y modelos de la arquitectura virreinal y el interés de esta publicación se centra en ...

¿Qué fue exactamente lo que dio lugar a la arquitectura onírica de star architects como Zaha Hadid? ¿Cómo afectó la relación entre artistas y arquitectos a la producción arquitectónica durante ...

In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings was realized prior to the revolution 1959 and in its wake. The designs comprise luxurious nightclubs ...

In 1950, the obligatory participation of visual artists in state building measures at home and abroad was decreed in the German Bundestag as well as in the parliament of the ...

I ventidue saggi del volume affrontano i molteplici registri dello sguardo degli architetti francesi, non solo dei pensionnaires dellAcadémie de France, in viaggio nella penisola e oltre, tra secondo Settecento ...

David Chipperfield Architects Berlin presents, 'A book about a large building (216,000 m2) recently built (between 2010 and 2018) in East Asia (Seoul) for Amorepacifia, a Korean beauty and cosmetics ...

The 'Co-Creating Architecture series looks at design studios in Denmark that emerged in the first decades of the 21st century. This generation of designers blazed a trail in Danish architecture ...