Arquitectura moderna monumental

Sistemas arquitectónicos contemporáneos plantea una visión nueva de la arquitectura contemporánea -desde principios del siglo XX hasta principios del XXI- que parte de la crisis del objeto aislado y pone especial énfasis en las relaciones entre los edificios y en los valores del espacio público que definen. De este modo, el concepto de sistema reescribe una historia de la arquitectura reciente en función de su capacidad para desarrollar formas que se adapten mejor al contexto. En este libro se estudian ejemplos que se sitúan en una escala común entre la arquitectura, el urbanismo y...

- Martin Parr (b.1952) is one of the best-known and most influential British photographers working today, acclaimed for his frank chronicling of life and society - This introductory monograph charts Parr's entire career including early black and white photographs, unpublished images made over the last five years, and works from all his major projects, including The Last Resort and Think of England - Parr is a prolific book-maker and collector, as well as a long-standing member of the Magnum Photos agency. This new title is an affordable companion to his other Phaidon publications which...

This book has become a classic. With photographs of extraordinary quality, is a copilation of architectural art works performed over the last decade. This book presents a visual history to analyze and evaluate the work of twenty different styles to create spaces and propose solutions where daily life takes place, between tradition and modernism.

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...