 The Ethics of Building The Ethics of Building. Botta, Mario. Birkhauser. Paperback. The Ethics of Building. Mario Botta here takes stock of his oeuvre in a concise essay form. The volume contains 70 sketches by Mario Botta to elucidate the theoretical discourse regarding the ethics of architecture.. 9783764357429. 3764357428. 184pag. 23x16x1.Ingles (English). |
 Chicago Architecture and Design Chicago Architecture and Design. Larson, George A.. Harry N. Abrams. Hardcover. Chicago Architecture and Design. The birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago, is noted for an architectural tradition that has influenced building around the globe. Now the authoritative text on the subject is completely redesigned, revised, and expanded to bring the history up to date-with an all-new final chapter on the signature works of the last 20 years, up to and including Frank Gehry´s Millennium Park band shell, whose curling ribbons of stainless steel added a dazzling new facet to the city´s skyline in July 2004. Some 300 photographs, principally the work of the renowned Chicago studio Hedrich Blessing, illustrate the book.. 9780810931923. 0810931923. 256pag. 28x23x2.Ingles (English). |
 The Public Face of Architecture The Public Face of Architecture. Glazer, Nathan (Edt). Free Press. Hardcover. The Public Face of Architecture. Contemporary public architecture - the buildings, plaza, and streets that constitute the city and embody our civic ideals - is in a state of disarray. All too often ill-conceived and uninspired, American public architecture today reflects our confusions about public life itself. It is marred by the disappearance of firmly accepted theoretical precepts, by a declining capacity to build lively, functional shared space, and by the failure of both citizens and architects to fully understand the important civic consequences of building projects and urban plans. To highlight these problems and to spur more critical, responsible appraisal of them, this provocative book brings together nearly thirty thoughtful essays that explore what a vital public architecture has meant in the past, and what it should mean now and for the future.. 9780029118115. 0029118115. 512pag. 26x18x3.Ingles (English). |
 Autonomy and Ideology Autonomy and Ideology. Somol, R.E. (Edt). Monacelli Press. Paperback. Autonomy and Ideology. Positioning an Avant-Garde in America.. 9781885254597. 1885254598. 363pag. 23x18x2.Ingles (English). |
 Entropia Entropia. Baxi, Kadambari. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. Paperback. Entropia. New York based architects Reinhold Martin and Kadambari Baxi investigate utopian 1960s architecture in this book version of their acclaimed multimedia installation. Entropia looks at three architectural projects where structures are variously disturbed until they break - physical illustration of the public and the private. Entropia is a radical re-thinking of architectural logic, narrated by a series of diagrams, fragmented texts and computer generated images.. 9781901033328. 1901033325. 94pag. 18x24x1.Ingles (English). |
