New York

Este libro está dividido en dos partes, incluye en su primera el desarrollo de un marco o enfoque conceptual de la ciudad y sus lugares; en la segunda, experiencias concretas de intervenciones proyectivas y de gestión del autor, precedidas en cada programa u operación de las consideraciones personales que el problema-tema le indujeron, vale decir el marco de ideas motrices de sus procesos de lectura de la realidad, imaginantes de ella como situación creativa nueva e inédita. Estos textos, alguno fenomenológico, otro histórico, alguno antropológico, otro pictórico, otro sincrético,...

Xavier Bordils (Castelló, 1939) has stood out for his contributions to promote and spread design, graphic design and packaging, as well as for his intense projectual activity. Convictions and preferences are summarised in the text that goes with his mark: ¿Xavier Bordils: anti-stylist design, graphic design, structural design, global design, utilitary design, industrial product design, sematic design, architectural design, design, blah, blah, blah.¿

The incredible life story of one of the 20th century's most important designers, who knew everyone from Hemingway to Picasso. Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things chronicles the life and times of one of the most important, prolific, and, above all, interesting designers and architects of the 20th century. Sottsass (1917-2007), originally trained as an architect and worked as a design consultant for Olivetti, where he developed the iconic Valentine typewriter, before going on to found the Memphis Group in the 1980s, ushering in an era of influential designs in furniture, ceramics and...

Brief overview of ObregÑn's (b. Mexico) work as one of the most influencial Mexican born architects of the 20th century.