Gaudí

This series was the winner of the American Institute of Architects' prestigious "Award for Excellence in International Book Publishing". Each volume in this series is introduced with an essay on the architect, and a chronological or stylistic presentation of their most outstanding buildings and projects. No other series provides such a complete and concise summary of the world's leading architects' works. The volumes are fully illustrated in black-and-white with photos and project renderings.

A collection of writings by Enrique Yañez to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death. The text presents an approach to life and observations of the architect, covering the fields of architecture, its social function, urbanism, society and culture.

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.

"En muy pocas ocasiones se ha dejado que fuera el mismo Gaudí quien expusiera, llana y brevemente, sus ideas sobre arquitectura, construcción y ornamentación o sobre sus tipologías arquitectónicas preferidas: el templo y la casa." A partir de este planteamiento, Laura Mercader nos ofrece, por primera vez, una edición crítica global del legado escrito-con algunos textos todavía inéditos-de uno de los mayores arquitectos del siglo XX, una lectura fiable y genuina de los originales manuscritos o mecanografiados y un trabajo tan exhaustivo como necesario de documentación. El resultado...