ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

¿Cuándo un edificio es solo una construcción y cuándo es arte? ¿Qué hace que nos emocionemos con la magnificencia del Taj Mahal, las pirámides de Giza o un rascacielos de Nueva York? ¿Qué secretos ocultan la cuidada sobriedad de Le Corbusier, la trascendencia espiritual de Miguel Ángel o la racionalidad clásica de Calícrates? Con un lenguaje alejado de tecnicismos, en esta guía encontrarás lo esencial de la arquitectura de todo el mundo para que puedas disfrutar todavía más esa apasionante faceta de la actividad humana.

Desde construcciones antiguas hasta modernos rascacielos de alta tecnología, descubre todo lo que hay que saber sobre la historia de la arquitectura en todo el mundo. ¿Por qué las antiguas construcciones romanas han resistido el paso del tiempo? ¿Cómo se sostienen los altos techos de las catedrales góticas? ¿Cómo pueden ayudar las innovaciones arquitectónicas a combatir el cambio climático? Explora en profundidad cada periodo y estilo arquitectónico a través de ejemplos icónicos. Este completo libro abarca más de 6000 años de historia, explica los avances más importantes en materiales de construcción, tecnología y diseño y muestra los cambios sociales que han dado forma al paisaje arquitectónico.

Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp’s 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In Francesco Spampinato’s unique anthology of artists’ record covers, we discover the rhythm of this particular cultural history. The book presents 450 covers and records by visual artists from the 1950s through to today, exploring how modernism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, postmodernism, and various forms of contemporary art practice have all informed this collateral field of visual production and supported the mass distribution of music with defining imagery that swiftly and suggestively evokes an aural encounter. Along the way, we find Jean-Michel Basquiat’s urban hieroglyphs for his own Tartown record label, Banksy’s stenciled graffiti for Blur, and a skewered Salvador Dalí butterfly on Jackie Gleason’s Lonesome Echo. There are insightful analyses and fact sheets alongside the covers listing the artist, performer, album name, label, year of release, and information on the original artwork. Interviews with Tauba Auerbach, Shepard Fairey, Kim Gordon, Christian Marclay, Albert Oehlen, and Raymond Pettibon add personal accounts on the collaborative relationship between artists and musicians.

For Ashe and Leandro, creativity is a way of life that is reflected in everything they design. They have built a star-studded portfolio (clients include Liev Schreiber, Seth Meyers, Naomi Watts, and Rashid Johnson) with their fresh approach to unfussy, high-design spaces. Their interiors favor a quiet beauty, based on simple shapes, asymmetrical details, and a fine patina.

Having a nineteenth-century apartment in Paris steps from the Trocadero and Eiffel Tower is a dream. So is owning an eighteenth-century chateau in the French countryside known as the “Versailles of the fields.” Having both? That’s the dreamy escapism found in designer Corrigan’s new book, which will enchant Francophiles and design lovers alike with its rich trove of ideas for anyone wanting to decorate in a French-inspired style.