ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

Color y Luz. Escuela de artistas cuenta con expertos tanto del mundo del arte tradicional como digital que exploran a fondo la teoría y la práctica del uso del color y la luz para ayudarte a mejorar tus trabajos. Charlie Pickard supera los aspectos básicos y presenta una teoría del color en detalle. Entre los temas más avanzados están la jerarquía cromática, la valoración tonal, la constancia del color y la exposición. Descubre cómo crear y controlar el color mediante el tono, el valor y el croma. Seguidamente, Pickard aborda el inmenso tema de la luz y explica, mediante ejemplos muy bien ilustrados, algunos conceptos complejos como el sombreado, la forma, la profundidad y la textura. Se presentan tres tipos de materiales básicos: mates, especulares y transparentes, para que ganes confianza a la hora de pintar cualquier objeto que se presente. A continuación, los conocidos artistas Djamila Knopf, Guweiz y Nathan Fowkes te guiarán a través de unos detallados tutoriales especialmente diseñados para que explores el uso del color y la luz. Los proyectos se presentan por etapas. En cada una, el artista en cuestión comenta las decisiones que ha tomado para crear unos colores llamativos, una iluminación verosímil, una atmósfera cautivadora y un entorno realista. Cada artista trabaja de una forma diferente, lo que facilita una gran variedad de métodos para llevar la teoría a la práctica. A su vez, los artistas de la sección de la galería, también expertos en su terreno, realizan su aportación con todo un abanico de estilos, habilidades y técnicas.

A celebration of the innovative, artisanal, and sustainable living exemplified by contemporary Dutch interiors. With a carefully curated collection of interiors, including historic canal houses, restored farms, and green homes, belonging to interior designers, product designers, architects, and artists, this book showcases creative and resourceful living. These properties have been created or renovated and brought into the twenty-first century with typical Dutch style and sensibility—environmentally friendly, imaginative uses of space filled with color and charm and never to be taken too seriously.

Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of “home” into a workable, constructed reality. This publication rounds up 100 of the world’s most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.

An excellent addition to contemporary interiors category: a package of exceptional value combined with renowned author Philip Jodidio's exceptional eye, this book includes the most cutting-edge, effective, and appealing breakthroughs in home architecture within the past five years. A stunning collection of outstanding works of contemporary residential architecture from around the world. Contemporary Interiors is the perfect source of inspiration for homeowners and architects alike.

Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity. No fewer than eight Japanese architects have won the Pritzker Prize. Since Osaka World Expo ’70 highlighted contemporary forms, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Tadao Ando's geometry put Japanese building on the map, bridging East and West. After his concrete buildings, figures like Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, and Kazuyo Sejima pioneered a more sustainable approach. Younger generations have taken new directions, in harmony with nature, traditional building, and an endless search for forms. Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book links this unique creativity to Japan's high population density, modern economy, long history, and continual disasters in the form of earthquakes. Accepting ambiguity, constant change, and catastrophe is a key to understanding how Japanese architecture differs from that of Europe or America.

Ceaseless in its pursuit to create “an alchemy of old and new,” the highly esteemed firm of Cullman & Kravis is renowned for its ability to fashion modern, cohesive, richly layered homes rooted in tradition and the respect for function and decoration. Utilizing their decades of experience, they build out rooms from the finest classical foundations, then infuse bold, stylish, and modish elements, mixing exquisite antiques with contemporary art to create truly dynamic spaces conceived to stand the test of time.