Australia architecture & design

For the first time ever a monograph dedicated to the temporary projects and personal designs created by world-renowned architect Enric Miralles.A quick perusal of the pages makes it patently clear that for Miralles the word temporary could never be synonymous with minor. From the design of the pergolas in the Olympic Village in Barcelona to the changing sets of an Opera that premiered in his own studio each work is a celebration of space, time and movement. 16 projects are featured.

"No historical European city looks as modern as Berlin. Renovating and changing constantly, in the last one hundred years a notion of modernity in architecture peculiar to Berlin has developed in the German capital. In light of the multitude of meanings this term can have the present volume shows a broad spectrum of Modernism with its technical and constructive as well as formal and aesthetic innovations in the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, marked by the great names of architecture, from Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe to Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid. Berlin...

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El lector encontrara en esta edicion una descripcion detallada de la arquitectura y la filosofia de Louis Kahn, cuyo pensamiento cambio por completo el curso de la arquitectura en Estados Unidos. Ensayos y fotografias van acompanados de sucintas notas complementarias, asi como de una lista completa de edificios y proyectos y un indice, que hacen de esta edicion una fuente erudita e ilustrativa de primer orden. Gustavo Gili dispone de una monogafia mas compacta de Louis Kahn en la coleccion obras y proyectos.