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Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...

Este libro no pretende ser una historia completa de la catedral giennense, sino unicamente la referida a su etapa renacentista (S. XVII-XVIII). Se limita, además, a los datos relativos a su construcción -inéditos en su mayoría-, tomados de las Actas Capitulares del Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Jaén, y del Archivo Municipal. Se trata de una recopilación de artículos, publicados en revistas de nuestro entorno cultural, reseñados en la Bibliografía. En sus seis capítulos se exponen noticias acerca de los principales arquitectos, sobre la construcción y sus constructores, las...

La Composición arquitectónica, entendida como el conjunto de disciplinas que configuran el substraigo teórico sobre el que se asienta la práctica de la arquitectura, se va organizando a partir de estas piezas, en cierta medida autónomas, asentando de este modo el saber de la arquitectura.

Having graduated from Cornell University, Richard Meier established his own architectural firm in New York City in 1963, around a group known as the "Five Architects" of New York. This book includes 70 works and projects, chronologically ordered, from his first private houses around New York, to the most recent cultural centres, museums, corporate buildings and city planning for different cities in Europe, Asia and USA. This book, abundantly illustrated and documented, offers a chronological survey, from the first houses in the Hamptons to the most recent buildings including the Getty Center...