(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Francesco Dal Co
Author
Description
"American architect Frank O. Gehry is one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, completed in 1997, has been heralded as the most important building of its time. Yet his exceptional career has never been comprehensively presented. This first major monograph on Gehry's work includes more than 250 buildings and projects designed throughout his forty-year career, each fully documented with photographs,...
Author
Description
"This is the most comprehensive book published in English on the architecture of Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of the 2006 Pritzker Prize, which gained him international recognition after working mainly in Brazil for many years. Mendes da Rocha is known for his innovative use of concrete and steel in provocative works that have earned both critical and popular success. His striking and poetic use of simple materials is evident in both his residential...
Author
Description
Modern architecture is a broad philosophical inquiry into the political, social, and technological forces of the last 100 years as embodied in the buildings around us. This far-ranging volume in Abrams "History of World Architecture" series surveys the residences, exhibitions, communities, and industrial and office buildings in the United States and Europe that have endowed twentieth-century architecture with its power to restructure our visual perceptions....