Martin Parr

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 present research work is based on original manuscripts and testimonies from architect González Gortázar (b. Mexico) regarding his transcendent architecture and urban designs. González Gortázar is considered at present one of the most important architects of México, creator of spaces and urban art that are now geometric symbols and references of the city of Guadalajara in México. The architect strongly practices the concept of "Space and Art" and where the city should never loose their social function for which it was originally conceived and constructed.

In the immediate postwar years, a new type of modern architecture emerges. Beatriz Colomina presents domesticity as a potent new weapon in a changed architectural battlefield. This architecture becomes the property of the middle-class consumer bombarded with images of domestic bliss, a lifestyle campaign launched through recycled military techniques. The significance of architects like Charles and Ray Eames lies in their sensitivity to buildings and images both defining space. Colomina is Director of Princeton University's Architecture PhD program and acclaimed author of Privacy and Publicity ...

La eleccion de los materiales y los elementos de construccion que se deben utilizar en una obra es una tarea cada vez mas compleja. La arquitectura ofrece una gama muy amplia de posibilidades entre las que escoger. El conocimiento de las propiedades de estos materiales es imprescindible si se quiere hacer una eleccion objetiva. Este libro analiza las propiedades tecnicas de dichos materiales (de la masa, del estado de la materia), mecanicas, reologicas y termicas, y su relacion con los fenomenos ondulatorios, aparentes, temporales y de duracion; sus costes, sus repercusiones sobre la salud y...