The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture presents a global survey of the most outstanding works of contemporary architecture from around the world completed in the last five years. Organized geographically and illustrated with global, regional and sub-regional maps locating each building, the book illustrates more than 1,000 completed buildings, and includes some of the most influential projects as well as many lesser-known buildings from around the world. Sections on World Data, Building Data and Architect’s Biographies build up a detailed picture of the influences on contemporary architecture today. Every building type, from the largest publicly-funded art museums and airports to private houses, is covered, and each project is illustrated with colour photographs, line drawings and a descriptive text.

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

Travel

Adrià, Miquel

Campkin, Ben

Condorelli, Céline

Reference

Phaidon Press

Edited by Miguel Centellas. Architects, builders, and homeowners will find inspiration in the fresh ideas packed into this collection of monographs, each devoted to the singular work of an eminent Spanish architect. Volumes contain exhaustive studies of the featured architect's projects, a catalogue of built works, and cogent notes by the designers themselves. These elegant books are illustrated with color photos and project renderings.

Enric Miralles: Documentos De Arquitectura Series, No 32

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Whitney Library of Design

E. Bonell/J.M. Gil/F. Rius (Documentos De Arquitectura Series, No 29)

ge 0000000000000 0000000000 0000000000000

Mathias Klotz: Architecture and Projects

Les Batisseurs de Lumiere

Norma

Humberto Spíndola devises interventions in the architecture of Luis Barragán using traditional Mexican colored tissue paper.

Humberto Spíndola: Interventions in the Architecture of Luís Barragán: Homage to Chucho Reyes

Kassner, Lily

Manríque, Jorge Alberto

Vigil Chávez, José

Cervantes, Armando

Otero, Marinela

History & Criticism

RM/Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luís Barragán

Espacios mexicanos: Once casas contemporáneas

Photography & Video

Higuera + Sánchez

The most important public works project of the decade in Mexico, the Biblioteca Vasconcelos, came out of the country's first international architecture competition in more than a century--the first since the never-finished Legislative Palace project in 1896. This introduction to the recently completed site offers a tour in color and black-and-white images, details of the Gabriel Orozco work built into the site, and architect Alberto Kalach's design in sketches, renderings and plans. An historical text placing the Biblioteca in the context of Mexico's most significant libraries over the years analyzes those precedents not only as containers of books, but as cultural concepts, because the Biblioteca's power lies not only in its quality of design and its contribution to the urban landscape, but also in the cultural policy it represents and fosters. Alberto Kalach has often been referred to as the leading Mexican architect of his generation.

Biblioteca Vasconcelos Library

Garrido, Felipe

Bassols, Marco

Editorial RM

In Mexico, as in other places and often in other times, the identification of a way of working, a style, a "correct" attitude with a tradition, as a stimulus to nationalist identification, has tended to channel creativity in the direction of the stereotype and the devalued imitation of the model being imitated, frustrating the expression of a rich and complex country fully capable of assimilating the current globalization of this end of the millennium.The selection featured in this book, which like all those of this kind is somewhat subjective and arbitrary, sets out to attend exclusively to the quality of the architecture, irrespective of whatever movements or schools the individual architects may, openly or covertly, belong to. Accordingly, the selection features works by figures of established national and international prestige alongside young and relatively unknown architects. In stylistic and formal terms, too, both this book and the realities of Mexican architecture are marked by currents as diverse as the volumetric expressionism of Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon and the abstractions from vernacular elements of Ricardo Legorreta, in contrast to the work of Enrique Norten, close to the latest international movements.Typologically, this book ranges from conversions within historic urban centres, by way of private houses, to new buildings of various types.

México 90's: A Contemporary Architecture

Gustavo Gili/Mexico

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Adrià, Miquel. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Adrià, Miquel