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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...

The Middle Ages constitute one of the darkest periods of humanity. European monarchs vying for their own interests and the relentless spread of the plague, or Black Death, consumed the lives of millions. Then, seemingly overnight, colossal monuments began soaring through the skies, dominating the heights ?the Gothic period had been born. In this book, Fern?ndez Bueno unveils some of the key enigmas that throughout the ages have been locked within the walls of cathedrals. Where and why they were built, their acoustics, symbology, legends, and alchemy. This is a magical voyage through the main...

Esta investigación propone - mediante la crítica de las evidencias que ubican en el centro del proceso de mediatización de la violencia al conflicto armado colombiano - distanciarse de los enfoques que privilegian la dimensión política del fenómeno y revisar el acontecimiento violento desde el croquis de su percepción imaginaria, es decir, desde tres dimensiones reconocibles, cercanas a la violencia cotidiana: violencia oscura, violencia degradada y violencia muda. Adicionalmente, aborda la violencia colombiana desde la observación intensiva de un material productivo por su naturaleza ...

This volume features 25 architectural works constructed in Chile by architect Valdés between 1963 and 2007. It also comprises a series of texts that the author gathered after several conversations with the architect from 2001 to 2006, in a first-hand account of the creative process established by the architect about design, material, construction and space.