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Revealing the pleasure of contemplation, a well-known aesthetic professor journeys to the four corners of the earth, admiring the arts, architecture, and the people.

"Pioneros del diseño" busca explorar la figura del diseñador industrial remontándose a sus orígenes, proponiendo un recorrido a través de los diferentes movimientos y centros formativos en los que se gestó y consolidó, hasta llegar a la libertad creativa de los primeros diseñadores industriales estadounidenses. Es éste un libro que brinda la oportunidad de adentrarse en la historia de colectivos creativos como la Deutscher Werkbund, los Wiener Werkstätte, o la Bauhaus, y que a la vez incide en el papel que desempeñaron algunos de los diseñadores más relevantes en Estados Unidos...

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 ...

Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona has translated pragmatic and poetic concepts and intentions into physical form. These result from the architect's deep communion with and understanding of the materials and processes, as well as of the historic-cultural context in which his architectural intervention takes place. Salmona's oeuvre, including such notable examples as the Torres del Parque (1967) in Bogota, the Presidential House for Illustrious Guests (1981) in Cartagena, the Quimbaya Museum (1983) in Armenia and the National Archive of the Nation (1992) in Bogota, is without doubt one of the ...