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White Architecture: Contemporary Poetics. Paolo De Marco

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White Architecture: Contemporary Poetics

Paolo De Marco "White Architecture: Contemporary Poetics" by Paolo de Marco is a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the color white in contemporary architecture. The book addresses the relationship between white and architecture, exploring its historical, cultural, and mythological roots, as well as its poetic and scientific aspects. Through a...

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Rome is water. Liquid scenery

Francisco del Corral del Campo

€22.00

Water is the vital flow of every city, but nowhere is it more real than in Rome, where it invades every corner. In this book we can appreciate the magnificent watercolors by Francisco del Corral that, in an elegant and suggestive way, takes us through the landscapes of Rome, But there are more than pretty watercolors from wonderful fonts. His way of...

Pioneros de la Arquitectura Moderna (5) 2

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Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture (5)

€18.00

The project of inhabiting The book addresses how architects of the 1910s and 1920s redefined housing from innovative perspectives, adapting modern principles to a unique cultural and social context. Figures such as Alejandro de la Sota, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza and Antoni Bonet Castellana, among others, star in an analysis that combines history,...

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Reviewing the era of the avant-gardes

€15.00

Notes for an architecture of the XXI century This publication is an independent continuation of the publication Revising Romanticism, dedicated this time to the era of the Avant-gardes within the seminars of theory and Criticism of Architecture promoted by the Department of Architectural Composition of the UPV in which it seeks to shed light on plural...

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Javier Goerlich. Architect

€36.00

Javier Goerlich owes the modern appearance of the city of Valencia. Author of more than six hundred buildings and important urban reforms, his work forever changed the face of the city, following the strong artistic and aesthetic sense that he always claimed for architecture. With 332 pages, this book contains abundant photographs, plans, watercolors and...

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La arquitectura de Fernando Moreno Barberá

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The architecture of Fernando Moreno Barberá

€25.00

This book signifies the confirmation of the recognition of the figure of Moreno Barberá among the Spanish architects of Modernity. Disciple of Paul Bonatz belongs to the third generation of the modern movement noted for the conceptual rigor of the abundant production of him. The publication collects, for the first time in such detailed form, a selection...

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Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture (4)

€18.00

Architecture as an integral work The central theme of this edition, the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk or “total work of art,” focuses on how modern Spanish architects conceived their projects as integral units. From the smallest details, such as furniture design, to the relationship between the building and its surroundings, this book reveals the attention...

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Valencia: Housing and Open City

€12.00

Valencia: Housing and Open City analyses Jaime Roig Street as an urban laboratory where, throughout the 1950s to 1970s, different ways of designing collective housing were tested. Far from presenting a catalogue of notable buildings, the research focuses on relationships: between pieces, between scales, between the public and the private. The book starts...

La recherche patiente. Le Corbusier. 50 years later

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La recherche patiente. Le Corbusier. 50 years later

€28.00

FAD 2018 Prize for Thought and Criticism ex-aequo On the fiftieth anniversary of his death, this book is a tribute to the figure of the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Through 328 pages, it offers a journey through the most diverse aspects of his work, from his relationship with nature and modern mobility to his incursion into...

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Antonio Lamela and Torres Colón

Lamela Arquitectos

€12.50

History of one of the most relevant achievements of Architecture and Structural Engineering of the 20th Century The Colón Towers in Madrid are the masterpiece of the famous Madrid architect Antonio Lamela (1926-2017), and one of the most emblematic of Estudio Lamela. Due to its daring concept and its structural singularity, it can be considered a unique...

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Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture (3)

€18.00

Critical analysis of a work of architecture This edition focuses on the in-depth analysis of emblematic and little-known works by the great architects of the modern movement in Spain. Using a rigorous approach, participants unravel the values, strategies, and criteria behind significant architectural projects, exploring how these decisions not only shaped...

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Collective housing in Spain. 1992-2015

€35.00

Collective Housing in Spain 1992-2015 completes the study begun with the volume dedicated to the period 1929-1992, covering the evolution of collective housing in Spain over more than two decades. With a rigorous selection of 76 projects from a database of 366 works, this book offers a systematic vision of collective housing production in the country....

Pioneros de la Arquitectura Moderna Española (2)

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Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture (2)

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Learning from a work The second edition of the Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture Congress, which this time focused on the theme “Learning from a work”, continues the series of publications of the different annual editions of this congress organized by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Works. The book...

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Le Corbusier. Paris n´est pas Moscou

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The book Le Corbusier. Paris n'est pas Moscou immerses us in the atmosphere of Le Corbusier's workshop, exploring the creative process that gave rise to such emblematic projects as the Centrosoyuz, the Ville Radieuse and the Palace of the Soviets. Through 120 carefully documented pages, the authors Jorge Torres Cueco, Raúl Castellanos Gómez and Pedro...

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Burle Marx, Landscapes of Water

Francisco del Corral del Campo

€14.00

The present work, thanks to Francisco del Corral's drawings, shows the compositional forms by which Burle Marx constrains liquid matter, and is extremely useful to understand the master's design method. The mutation of a natural scene into an abstract landscape that in turn is proposed as a metaphor for the creativity contained in Brazilian nature....

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Aires Modernos. E.1027: maison en bord de mer

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Aires Modernos. E.1027: maison en bord de mer

Carmen Espegel

€20.00

This book tries to elaborate a specific manuscript of Architecture, and more specifically of Projects. The architect projects to the extent that he makes a critique of his work and obtains a product so objective and free that it allows him to enunciate himself as a subject; that is to say, the Project as a critic, the critic as a meta-project. All this,...

Pioneros de la Arquitectura Moderna Española

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Pioneers of Modern Spanish Architecture

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This book is the result of the I National Congress of Architecture presented by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation, under the title Pioneros de la arquitectura modern española: validity of his thought and work, a congress dedicated to those generations of Spanish architects born around the decades of 1910 and 1920, authors of pioneering masterpieces of...

Fernando Moreno Barberá. An architect in tourism

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Fernando Moreno Barberá. An architect in tourism

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This book studies the evolution of tourism in Spain in the quarter century of Spanish development. He highlights the importance of the recovery of historic buildings, such as those that are part of the Paradores Network and that are the very history of the evolution of Spain. At the same time, it constitutes the best tribute to a distinguished architect,...

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The "Poblado dirigido" of Caño Roto

€38.00

The activity carried out in the 1950s in the "Poblados dirigidos" by those who would be called to be the fathers of modern Spanish architecture in the second half of the 20th century is among the most delicate and full of consequences of all their careers. With limited means, in a harsh political and economic climate, and having to count on the labor...

Collective housing in Spain. 20th century (1929-1992)

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Collective housing in Spain. 20th century (1929-1992)

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This book includes a selection of 83 collective housing works made in Spain between 1929 and 1992. It offers a detailed version of the residency projected in Spain between the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition and the 1992 Seville Universal Exhibition. It contains drawings of all the buildings redrawn and with different scales depending on whether...

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Reviewing romanticism. Notes for a new architecture in the XXI century

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This publication collects the contents of the seminar that, under the same title, brought together authors such as Josep Maria Montaner, Joaquin Arnau, Javier Poyatos, etc. .. in a reflection on romantic architecture. It seeks to reflect on the intellectual and sensitivity components of Romanticism, understanding it as one of the significant movements in...

Conservation & Restoration

The New Getty Villa

Machado and Silvetti Associates

€24.00

The New Getty Villa documents the ambitious process of restoring and expanding the Getty Villa campus in Malibu, a project led by the architectural firm Machado and Silvetti Associates over the course of twelve years. With a narrative that interweaves technical analysis and conceptual reflections, the book reveals the challenges, innovations, and...

Water, the essence of space in the work of Carlo Scarpa

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Water, the essence of space in the work of Carlo Scarpa

Francisco del Corral del Campo

€18.00

Carlo Scarpa, the carver of water, a mythical and intense figure like his own city, is revealed to us throughout the pages of this book as the master who was able to crystallize the forms of water in his architecture, reinterpreting the purest Venetian tradition . Francisco del Corral offers us in this book a vision of the work of the great Italian...

The City of Valencia and the Sea, from Tosca to Sorolla

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The City of Valencia and the Sea, from Tosca to Sorolla

Javier Dominguez Rodrigo

€10.00

Esta publicación recoge la conferencia que con el mismo titulo pronunció el autor el 21 de noviembre en la Lonja con motivo de la Apertura del Curso 2012-2013 de la Real Academia de Cultura Valenciana.

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God is on the details

€17.00

The Restoration of the Architecture of the Modern Movement Despite what is believed, the architecture of the Modern Movement has not begun to be properly documented nor has it become a serious object of investigation until the end of the 20th century, precisely as a result of the development of the scientific restoration campaigns that are the...

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Le Corbusier. Mise au Point

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In 1966, Jean Petit published in "Editions Forces-Vives" a posthumous book by Le Corbusier, Mise au point, considered as his intellectual testament, since it constitutes his last writing before his death. His title, "mise a point", translatable as "clarification", "clarification", "focus" refers us to an act of recapitulation in the last section of his...

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Rafael Tamarit: architect

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Years have passed and it is still impossible to label Tamarit. He could be described as a visionary, architect, magician, sociologist, Sherpa,…, although above all he has been a world-renowned teacher for being the porcelain architect of the Lladró family empire. An outstanding disciple of Alejandro de la Sota and Julio Cano Lasso, it is his generous...

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Timeless modernity, with Alejandro de la Sota

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The book "Timeless Modernity" offers a thorough analysis of how architecture can transcend time. Focused on the figure of architect Alejandro de la Sota, the text explores the concept of architecture that not only remains relevant over time but also avoids following passing fads. With a clear structure and accessible language, the author breaks down the...

Pioneer picnic. Architecture, photography and the myth of the industry

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Pioneer picnic. Architecture, photography and the myth of the industry

Rubén Alcolea Rodriguez

€17.00

The irruption of the "mechanical eye" of the camera in the world of architecture represents a truly explosive event to which perhaps we have not yet been able to pay proportionate and serene attention. From him starts a whole new and irreversible itinerary, without return, for the exercise and public perception of the profession; and he inaugurates an...

Guastavino CO. Textures and Folds of a Nation.

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Textures and Folds of a Nation. Guastavino CO.

Guastavino

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New York City: Guastavino CO. and the reinvention of Public Space in the American Metropolis In this book, Mar Loren analyzes the trajectory and contributions of Rafael Guastavino i Moreno and his son, Rafael Guastavino i Expósito, in the architectural development of the United States between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through a rigorous...

Palladio, 1508-2008. A vision of antiquity

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Palladio, 1508-2008. A vision of antiquity

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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Andrea Palladio's architectural legacy, marking the 500th anniversary of his birth. Through a series of expert studies and lectures, the book delves into Palladio’s influence on architecture and his reinterpretation of the classical principles of Roman antiquity. The book brings together contributions from...

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Octagonal Regulatory Paths in Classical Architecture

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The development of the architectural project requires taking into account the standard sizes of the components, in addition to trying the final beauty of the set. Graphic layouts applied since ancient times try to combine both needs: make the best use of materials and achieve a harmonious building. (…) This study by Felipe Soler, fundamentally applied to...