Simon Ungers

Este libro recoge algunas de las obras más significativas de la producción europea del arquitecto suizo y otras menos conocidas para el lector no especialista, pero de indudable interés. El título del libro, Le Corbusier. Promenades, condensa el criterio que se ha seguido en su concepción y estructura: un encadenamiento de imágenes que describen de un modo narrativo los diferentes espacios que constituyen cada obra. El discurso fotográfico se apoya y completa con informaciones literarias y gráficas del propio Le Corbusier, estrechamente relacionadas con las imágenes, facilitando así ...

Danish design is a by-word for cool sophistication the world over. As you might expect, Copenhagen is home to a delectable assortment of hip restaurants. And, whether your dining preference is a cheerful bistro or high-end temple of gastronomy, everything in the surroundings will be sleekly coordinated from the cutlery to the artwork on the walls!

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 ...

The present study identifies and documents the existing 19th architecture ornamental patrimony of the city of Bogot featuring the history and personages involved in the creation of sculptures, relieves, moldings and carvings produced between 1880 and 1930. The study comprises 3 time sections: The first part concentrates in the moment the city started its urban process of modernization and its change to neoclassic an architectonic and construction style. A second focuses in the work of the Ramelli family (Luigi and his sons Colombo and Mauricio), with an inventory of their legacy and the...