Islands

El libro reúne un total de 32 textos de exposiciones realizadas por famosos teóricos y críticos del arte contemporáneo internacional, en el período 1980-1995. Incluye además un prólogo general y datos biográficos de los autores.

This is not another book on estates and confiscations. The author offers us a precise radiography of the state of the Carthusian Monastery in its magnificent final decades, of the ravages it suffered from 1808 onwards and its subsequent nationalisation, auction and sale process. A work mostly based on unpublished sources.

Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house concept - that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure - was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses and became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright’s designs for office and public buildings were equally groundbreaking and unique. From...

Este libro no es solo un libro sobre urbanismo o sobre arquitectura, tampoco es un libro sobre historia o poesía, no es un libro sobre viajes o literatura?, es todo esto y mucho más. Con una prosa que vaga de una idea a otra con la libertad que Kahn se otorga, nos lleva a las calles de Pompeya, pero no a una esplendorosa ciudad antigua, nos cuenta la historia de la gente común, gente que nos ha dejado legados de una vida corriente, incluso que ha tenido tiempo de dejarnos mensajes escritos en los muros de la ciudad; después nos desplaza a Oriente para contarnos cómo son las calles de Las ...

Life and work of polemic architect and urbanist Meyer (b. Switzerland), one of the most important functionalists of the 1920's. The former director of the Bauhaus, he worked for the Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico as the director of the Instituto del Urbanismo y Planification from 1942 through 1949, while also becoming the editor of the collective graphic workshop Taller de Grafica Popular (TGP) from 1947 to 1949. Many plates of his architectural designs and the structural diagrams Meyer used for the Bauhaus and in IUP in Mexico.