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Héctor Velarde no ha sido solo un personaje emblemático en la historia de la arquitectura peruana; también lo ha sido para la historia de la Carrera de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Lima. Hemos recibido de él un legado que se ha ido materializando y consolidando en corto tiempo, con el desarrollo de los cursos y con una serie de exposiciones y actos académicos a los que ahora se suma esta publicación.
En el recorrido por Lima en busca de...
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AOT no es solo una sigla para la arquitectura peruana contemporánea; durante más de cuarenta años probablemente fue la más organizada oficina de arquitectos que tuvo el Perú. Sus obras tuvieron una singular importancia, como en el caso del Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez, el edificio de Química Suiza o la sede de la IBM, entre otras edificaciones de las que el presente libro da cuenta.
Formado por los arquitectos Carlos Arana Holder,...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques, and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan, Wright Sites has been revised and expanded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the architect's birth in June 1867. The fourth edition of our best-selling...
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Vincent van Goghs life was driven by passions, from the religious to the romantic. These passions illuminated his work as an artist, but also led to his many disappointments in life. Whether attempting to be a missionary, falling in love with his cousin, sheltering a prostitute and her children, proposing to his neighbors spinster daughter or establishing an art colony with Paul Gauguin failure haunted him. Although his uniquely vibrant colors and...
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Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age,' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced.
Territory, understood as a 'political technology,' has the capacity to involve architects and designers into complex social, political, technical, legal, strategic and economic processes that are...
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Enric Miralles (1955-2000) remains one of the most prominent architects of his generation. The significance of his architectural design lies in his seamless integration of site and building and his use of space to serve the everyday conditions of life.
Practicing for less than twenty-five years Miralles designed over 150 projects, many are now built including: the Scottish Parliament Buildings, Santa Caterina Market, Vigo University, Diagonal Mar...
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This publication inquires into the future of post-industrial cities framing and speculating on different industrial contexts: archipelagos (Eibar), fabrics (Cobo Calleja), assemblies (Detroit).
Currently 55% of the world's population lives in cities, predictably reaching 70% in 2050. Cities are organisms in continuous transformation: growth, change, but also shrinking or collapse. Open City explores and speculates from contemporaneity about the future...
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Crown Hall Dean's Dialogues: 2012-2017 collects incisive, intimate thoughts from leading contemporary architects in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture.
This title collects the voices of 18 esteemed architects, designers, educators and theorists in dialogue with students from the Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture. Voices ranging from Phyllis Lambert to David Adjaye to Rafael...
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Beyond Environment presents the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena's idealized collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Captivated by a journey to the USA in 1971, Pettena would converse with the American Midwest, a conversation culminating in his meeting with Robert Smithson in Salt Lake City. Earlier in Minneapolis,...
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Nés aux quatre coins du monde, ils nous racontent leur Paris.
À l'initiative du musée de l'Histoire de l'Immigration (installé au Palais de la Porte dorée), vingt écrivains comptant chacun une longue bibliographie et lauréats de nombreux prix littéraires ont répondu à l'invitation de parler de LEUR Paris, tel qu'ils le vivent tous les jours, avec tendresse, forts de leur choix, conscients de leur chance. On n'est jamais aussi bien perçus...
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What do artist models think about while posing nude on the stand? Do they watch you as much as you watch them? Are they musing about their misadventures or what they want to do when they put their clothes back on and go home? Is it possible that they are living, breathing bodies who may be reminiscing about their trips to Europe, Morocco or New York City? Are they perhaps cold, itchy or trying not to sneeze? Was it different for artist models...
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Treize écrivains et trois photographes réveillent en nous le sentiment que Bruxelles sommeille dans les plis de nos cœurs.
Une ville singulière et énigmatique que l'on aime ou que l'on rejette car elle est insaisissable, mais bien présente en nous.
Un ensemble de textes tendres, ironiques, intimistes, pour entrer en empathie avec une ville unique !
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J'aime Bruxelles et son grand corps mystérieux traversé par un cours d'eau qu'on...
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