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En el primer libro de Estética Modal (Tecnos, 2016) pudimos exponer las bases de la produccion artística y la experiencia estética apoyándonos en las especificidades e interacciones de los modos de lo Necesario, lo Posible y lo Efectivo juntamente con sus correspondientes modos negativos: lo Contingente, lo Imposible y lo Inefectivo. Se tratará ahora, con este segundo libro de Estética Modal de darle continuidad a ese intento de acercar el pensamiento de la complejidad al ámbito de la Estética. A tal fin, se proponen diferentes herramientas de análisis ya mucho más cercanas a la experiencia de quien se halla en contacto con lo artístico y lo estético. Dichas herramientas se estudiarán en función de su carácter cognitivo, ontológico o axiológico. Hablaremos por tanto en términos de estratos -que organizan lo que hay-, categorías -que nos permiten conocerlo e intervenirlo- y valores -mediante los que organizamos nuestra reacción al respecto-. Pero tan importante como distinguir estos tres registros del pensamiento estético será aprender a hacerlos trabajar conjuntamente, formando "modos de relación" característicos. Modos que hacemos y que nos hacen, que atraviesan la historia del arte y nos atraviesan a nosotros.

Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The Case Study House program (1945–1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom. The program’s chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture’s greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and had a pronounced influence on architecture―American and international―both during the program’s existence and even to this day. TASCHEN brings you a retrospective of the entire program with comprehensive documentation, brilliant photographs from the period and, for the houses still in existence, contemporary photos, as well as extensive floor plans and sketches.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all write our autobiography, and if I dwell on the details of my career it is only because it makes it easier to explain my calling: the work that became my life’s fundamental vocation. Life has taught me that Nature gives us perfect feet. If they get damaged, it is because our shoes are defective. However, it is not necessary to undergo such torture, not even in the name of vanity. We can all walk happily wearing comfortable, refined, splendid shoes. This is my whole life’s work: learning to make perfect shoes, refusing to put my name on those that aren’t.” —Salvatore Ferragamo This is a new, completely updated edition of the autobiography of a man who made Italian fashion great throughout the world. Among the many vicissitudes of his adventurous life, the book features a magnificent series of encounters with and anecdotes about the most extraordinary Hollywood stars, such as Rudolph Valentino, Mary and Lottie Pickford, Pola Negri, Joan Crawford, and Greta Garbo. His loyal customers also included Marilyn Monroe, Douglas Fairbanks, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Audrey Hepburn, and Paulette Goddard.