ARQUITECTURA Y DISEÑO

A comprehensive look at Istanbul-based interior designer Zeynep Fadillioglu’s most striking projects, from a modern minimalist mosque to the city’s largest luxury hotel. Renowned for her striking, multilayered projects that are rich in materials, arts, and crafts, Zeynep Fadillioglu’s interiors express a bold contemporary sophistication and modern understanding of traditional values. Born and raised in Istanbul, Fadillioglu studied computer science and then art history and design at London’s Inchbald School of Design before setting up her design company in Istanbul. Today, having designed many notable landmarks, she is one of the most sought-after designers both at home and abroad. Her thoughtful, creative, and interdisciplinary approach to interior design bridges history, community, cities, climate, and culture with meticulous attention to detail and to storytelling.

This beautiful volume celebrates a dreamy vacation-and-escape destination, showcasing the most exclusive homes in the Caribbean tropical paradise of Punta Cana. This book takes us on a tropical adventure through Punta Cana Resort & Club’s most exclusive seaside homes. The stunning homes featured in this beautiful volume are set in exotic locations, with endless turquoise sea and sand views, on sweeping terraces with glimmering pools and dramatic sunsets. Breathtaking interiors with colorful tiles, earth-toned walls, thatched roofs, and natural wood finishes bring serenity and joy.

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre una columna dórica y una jónica? ¿Cuál es la función de un arbotante? ¿Cuáles son los principios rectores de la arquitectura moderna? ¿En qué se diferencia la restauración de la conservación? Desde las raíces más tempranas de la arquitectura en la Grecia anti­gua, pasando por el desarrollo revolucionario de finales del siglo XX, hasta las tendencias más recientes de la arquitectura ecológica, esta guía esencial explica los conceptos e ideas fundamentales sobre arquitectura y brinda una nueva y fundada comprensión de la disciplina y su profundo impacto en el mundo en que vivimos.

Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features—such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards—and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. Leading architects of style movements such as the Spanish Colonial Revival traveled to California and studied its extensive eighteenth and nineteenth century adobes firsthand as the foundation of their education in California architecture. Made of earth and organic matter, such as straw, adobe is among the oldest of building materials and has been used throughout the world. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California’s architectural heritage. Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today.

Con su trabajo visionario, el valenciano Santiago Calatrava (Benimámet, 1951) ha conseguido el reconocimiento internacional como arquitecto, ingeniero estructural, escultor y artista. Famoso tanto por sus puentes como por sus edificios, en su obra destacan las estructuras de aires neofuturistas, que combinan hábiles soluciones de ingeniería con un impacto visual asombroso. Desde el Complejo Deportivo Olímpico de Atenas 2004 y el reciente Museo del Mañana de Río de Janeiro hasta los puentes de la Paz, en Calgary; del Alamillo, en Sevilla, y de la Mujer, en Buenos Aires, los proyectos de Calatrava inciden especialmente en la relación entre el movimiento y el equilibrio. Con fuentes de inspiración tan diferentes como los diseños espaciales de la NASA o los estudios de anatomía de Leonardo Da Vinci, las obras del arquitecto español fascinan por la sensación de ligereza, agilidad y aerodinamismo que transmiten mientras mantienen una elegante relación con su entorno. Esta monografía concisa explora la singular estética de Calatrava a partir de proyectos clave de su carrera, desde sus primeros éxitos hasta sus creaciones más recientes. A través de edificios dedicados a la cultura, la ciencia o la fe, descubrimos la manera en la que integra las formas orgánicas y los movimientos humanos con una fluidez futurista que mira al mañana.

Introducing the first collection of art books with detachable prints to decorate your walls. Everything you need to create your own private gallery at home! Nightscapes that range from a fireworks display in Rome by Jacob Philipp Hackert to the Louvre from across a Parisian bridge by Maximilien Luce to a moonlit New York streetlamp by Georgia O'Keeffe. Each book contains a curated selection of twenty-one high-quality reproductions that can be easily removed from the book, framed in a standard-size frame, and displayed in the home. Step-by-step tips for grouping the works to create a harmonious gallery add an interior designer's touch to the ensemble. Graphic, colorful, or abstract; paintings, engravings, or drawings--each work of art is explained on the back of the print. Interesting details about the style of painting, the particular work of art, and biographical information about the artist are accompanied by a "frameable fact" that helps you understand the context of that particular work in the history of art. In addition, suggestions for where you can go to see additional examples of the artists' works allow the reader to expand his or her experience and learning. Artists include Edward Hopper, William Turner, Camille Pissarro, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Giorgio de Chirico, Georgia O'Keeffe, René Magritte, and Wassily Kandinsky.