Gozar el arte, gozar la arquitectura

This series is the best reference available for information on today's leading architects, and presents their work in an affordable and thoroughly illustrated format. Each book begins with an overview of the architect's style and accomplishments written by a leading architecture critic. Then, approximately twenty noteworthy works and projects are discussed by the architect and presented in detail with site plans, drawings, and black-and-white photographs.

Desde hace años se asiste al retorno de los modos de la arquitectura moderna, tras cuarenta años de ajetreo doctrinal. Durante este tiempo, con el pretexto de corregir las desviaciones de una modernidad mítica y, a menudo, mal entendida, se consiguió confundir su auténtico sentido y acabar con un modo de concebir intenso y relativamente generalizado. Las posiciones de enmienda se fundamentaban, por lo común, en argumentaciones morales, cuando no meramente costumbristas: en ningún caso fueron capaces de proponer un sistema visual alternativo al que fecundó la mejor arquitectura del...

Visiting an exhibition by Leonardo Nierman is penetrating a space that invites us to dream in infinities, to discover exteriors and interiors of cosmic worlds. The exhibition Genesis de un Sueno (Genesis of a Dream) mounted at the Contemporary University Museum of Art in Mexico City conveyed such sensations to visitors. Running from May through August of 1996, it featured three hundred of Nierman's works spanning forty years and was reinstalled by popular demand through January 1997. Its beauty and mystery are now captured in this elegant volume. Nierman: Genesis de un Sueno is a celebration...

Ask Americans to think of a famous architect and the person they are most likely to name is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's work, his reputation, and his long and colorful career have made him an icon of modern American architecture. But despite his status as America's most celebrated architect, his influence throughout an active practice spanning the years 1896 to 1959 is so wide and complex that it has been difficult to grasp fully. The essays in this book look not at the United States, the context usually associated with Wright, but at countries around the globe. Anthony Alofsin has assembled ...