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The remarkably prolific career of an innovative young Chilean architect is profiled in this engaging study. Born in 1965 and in professional practice since 1991, this architect's impact on his native landscape is observed mainly in a series of private houses located in some of the most sublime sites in Chile. The forceful yet austere character of his design approach and its radical relationship to surrounding landscape elements can be fully appreciated by viewing this book's fine pictorial panorama.

La Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid, en colaboración con el Instituto Juan de Herrera, está publicando, con gran formato y calidad de impresión, una selección de los libros que componen su fondo antiguo. En particular se han elegido aquellos libros notables por la calidad de sus grabados. De esta manera se pretende poner al alcance de los amantes de los libros de arquitectura algunas raras ediciones, a un precio asequible.

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...