ADOLF KRISCHANITZ es una figura reluciente en el campo de la arquitectura contemporanea. Nacido demasiado tarde para pertenecer aun a la generacion ingenua de los maestros de la arquitectura de la posguerra y activo demasiado pronto para tener que inventar inconscientemente cada vez de nuevo la arquitectura en el olvido generalizado de los anos noventa. En el discurso europeo pertenece a la llamada generacion intermedia que, en la Viena de los anos ochenta, se conocia como la generacion perdida. View More...
To mark the 1989 opening of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, this book documents the building designed for a unique institution: a museum and study center whose collection of architectural books, prints and drawings, photographs, and archives is one of the finest in the world. The essays and illustrations reveal the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about its role in the life of a culture or a city; about architecture itself.The new CCA is not only a work of architecture but also an addition to the pub... View More...
This text addresses the role of art within contemporary multicultural education. Co-published with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, it provides both theoretical foundations and practical resources for art educators and students. This edition combines colour illustrations and first-person artists' statements with interviews with notable educators and extensive lesson plans. It adopts an approach which connects everyday experience, social critique and creative expression with classroom learning. Susan Cahan and Zoya Kocur address this void by focusing on issues that students care about and th... View More...
Barcelona's place at the forefront of European architecture and design during the past fifteen years is nowhere more apparent than in the interiors of its remarkable restaurants and bars. Cool Restaurants Barcelona presents a "best-of" selection of hip establishments and includes recipes as inventive and well conceived as the ambience. Copiously illustrated with over 100 color photographs. 7A 'best-of" selection of the hippest Barcelona restaurants, bars, and lounges that serves as the perfect guide for those looking for an extraordinary dining experience. 7Another in teNeues' best-selling Coo... View More...
In thirteen well-illustrated essays, this book tells the story of the building of the American West and of the edifices that are as much a part of the history of the region as the people who built them. Organised in sequence according to central themes in the history of the West, the collection begins with two essays that describe the cultural connections between East and West during the late nineteenth century. The next two essays place American building forms in their western context, emphasising the distinctive regional qualities of the buildings and the lifeways they represent. The third p... View More...
Michelangelo (Caprese del Cansentino 1475-Rome, 1564) is one of the outstanding figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was a poet, sculptor, painter and architect. His architectural activity did not begin until 1519 when he designed the fa?ade of the San Lorenzo church in Florence. In the 1520s he also designed the Laurentian Library. Between 1519 and 1534 he worked on the project of the Medici family tombs and mortuary chapel, and their parish church, San Lorenzo. In 1538, under his supervision, work was started on the remodeling of the buildings around the Capitoline The apex of his architec... View More...
This is, without question, the most extensive, most ambitious, and most thoroughly documented primary source of cast-iron architecture in 19th-century America. Originally intended as an advertising device, it has become an architectural classic New introduction by Margot Gayle. 102 black-and-white plates.
