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The book examines the long, productive and stormy relationship architect Le Corbusier had with Argentina and the series of events in consequence. His Argentinean disciples Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan and Antonio Bonet, although influenced by the master architect had their own architectonic and urban ideas. The book examines the "Austral Net" created towards the productive, plural and complex relationship of these 4 personages where the central figure is the famed Swiss architect. The book is chronologically organized and includes a selection of the most important architecture...

Con más de 280 entradas, Arquitectura Moderna de la A a la Z de nuestra serie Bibliotheca Universalis ofrece una inestimable visión general de las figuras clave en la creación del espacio moderno. Presenta a los arquitectos pioneros del siglo XIX y XX con un retrato, una breve biografía y una descripción de sus obras más importantes. Como si de un viaje a medida para conocer la arquitectura de todo el mundo se tratase, descubrirá los rascacielos de Manhattan, una sala de conciertos japonesa, el Palau Güell de Gaudí en Barcelona o el centro de ocio y deporte de Lina Bo Bardi en una...

El presente libro es producto de tres cursos de capacitación impartidos por el autor al personal de Secretaría de Obras y Servicios de la Ciudad de México, a través de la División de Educación Continua y a Distancia de la Facultad de Ingeniería, con sede en el Palacio de Minería perteneciente a la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

It was in his home in Oak Park that Frank Lloyd Wright made his first contributions to the Modern movement. In 1889 he designed the first part of the house, in 1895 he added to it for his wife, Catherine, and their family, and in 1898 for his architectural practice. The entire building was a learning laboratory of modern architecture. While not a Prairie School house, it led to the development of the Prairie School. Wrights constant changes to this complex paralleled the evolution of his early architectural work and career. There, with his young assistants, he rethought the plan, spaces,...