Monumentos Ovetenses Del Siglo IX

Features a selection examining houses that have broken away from the past and that define today's innovation and tomorrow's classicism. The book does not aim to convert these houses into prototypes to follow; they are included because they reflect the peculiarities of their era, sites and owners.

En el marco de la cultura contemporánea, la teoría y la práctica de la arquitectura no plantean hoy marcos estables ni sistemas generalizables. El carácter fragmentario es característico de los escritos de los arquitectos y también de las publicaciones teóricas, que adoptan el formato antológico. En este horizonte, la disciplina modifica la mirada sobre su propia condición e intenta explicaciones más complejas que den sentido y justifiquen un modo de hacer. Pero, además, en muchos casos se establecen aportes que provienen de otros campos del conocimiento, comprometiéndose cada vez ...

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...

27 research papers grouped into 3 sections that range from architectural history to studies of patrimony, urban studies, and conservation. Continuation of the editorial project started in 1999 to promote scholarship on architecture in the state of Michoacan, Mexico.