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A valuable insight into the works and mind of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. Author Philip Jodidio explores long anticipated completed buildings, new projects, and a future outlook of the studio Shigeru Ban after TASCHEN has followed his career from the beginning. This monograph is a journey through the years and evolution of an architect who made a name for himself with true architectural marvels that cannot be surpassed in innovation, elegance, and sensibility. Next to early buildings deploying paper tubes as structural elements, as well as houses that challenge as fundamental an idea as walls, like the Curtain Wall House in Tokyo and the Wall-Less House in Nagano’s countryside, we see plenty of recent versatile projects. View a two-story penthouse on top of a 140-year-old New York City landmark cast-iron house, the Swatch/Omega Campus in Switzerland, and the Seine Musicale, a concert hall inserted into an overall master plan conceived by Jean Nouvel for the island Île Seguin in France.

Cómo un joven realizador que destacó en televisión por su estilo innovador y sentido del espectáculo ha llegado a convertirse en el gran rey del Cine y de la taquilla. * Un director que ha impuesto su dominio de la narración y su inventiva formal al mismo tiempo que ha revolucionado la industria con productos de extraordinario éxito, hasta el punto de que la simple mención de su nombre ya encarna la idea misma de espectáculo cinematográfico para varias generaciones de espectadores. * Compañero de viaje de George Lucas, ha creado escuela entre Robert Zemeckis, Joe Dante, M. Night Shyamalan... Sinopsis, génesis de sus proyectos, elección de actores y acogida de la crítica y del público: toda la filmografía de Steven Spielberg explicada al detalle hasta descifrar el aporte de genialidad que oculta cada una de sus obras. Largometrajes, episodios de series de televisión y telefilmes: desde los más populares hasta los más íntimos e incluso desconocidos. Con una rica iconografía: fotogramas, documentos gráficos del rodaje, carteles, material publicitario... Referencias a sus maestros, retratos de sus fieles colaboradores y profundización en las constantes de su obra: las obsesiones formales y temáticas. Incluye los secretos de rodaje, las anécdotas, los entresijos de la creación, análisis de planos y secuencias míticas.

Dedicado a algunas de las artistas del street art más importantes de la escena contemporánea, este libro pretende ser un viaje de descubrimiento a través de los universos infinitos de estas artistas que, con determinación y coraje, han buscado su lugar en el mundo; un lugar desde el que se hacen escuchar con voces altas y claras. * Una maravillosa aventura a través de los universos infinitos de mujeres artistas, que representan la humanidad misma como el ciclo imparable de la naturaleza. * Ejemplos de cómo florecen nuevas comunidades de mujeres en todo el mundo, de personas que están cansadas de ser invisibles, que ya no tienen miedo de hacer oír sus voces, que se apoyan unas a otras en lo que solo se puede describir como el principio de un verdadero Renacimiento de la mujer. El street art, arte urbano o arte callejero ha dejado de ser un club exclusivo para hombres. La espera ha sido larga, pero el momento ha llegado. Numerosas artistas de gran talento, en todo el mundo, se abren camino hacia la primera línea.

El ascenso meteórico de Taylor Swift al estrellato es la historia de este siglo. Taylor ha dominado la industria musical desde sus inicios como sensación adolescente de la música country hasta convertirse en un fenómeno global del pop. Es la primera mujer con cuatro álbumes en el Top Ten de la lista Billboard de forma simultánea, y ha recibido catorce Grammy Awards y cuarenta American Music Awards.

More than 100 years ago the brothers Adolf ("Adi") and Rudolf Dassler made their first pair of sports shoes. Hundreds of groundbreaking designs, epic moments, and star-studded collabs later, this book presents a visual review of the adidas shoe through almost 200 models. To further develop and tailor his products to athletes’ specific needs, Dassler asked them to return their worn footwear when no longer needed, with all the shoes eventually ending up in his attic (to this day, many athletes return their shoes to adidas, often as a thank you after winning a title or breaking a world record). This collection now makes up the "adidas archive", one of the largest, if not the largest archive of any sports goods manufacturer in the world—which photographers Christian Habermeier and Sebastian Jäger have been visually documenting in extreme detail for years.

The first illustrated book to chronicle the dramatic 1973 face-off between French and American fashion designers, which left an indelible mark on the fashion industry, launched American designers as a global force, and challenged the cultural norms of the time. Images from the archives of renowned fashion photojournalists Bill Cunningham and Jean-luce Huré—largely unseen until now—capture the behind-the-scenes drama, fabulous clothing, iconic models, and glamorous guests at this historic show.

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he’s long overdue for this ultimate monograph.Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do – he preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s, “I’m very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,” and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and Frazetta’s art is addictive as potato chips.

Forgoing the criteria of stateliness and opulence, this book is an exploration of the most captivating and unusual interiors in Ireland. Whether in the transformation of a derelict estate, the preservation of an historic hunting lodge, or the re-creation of a Gothic fantasy, each of the homes in this extraordinary book reflects a renewed vitality in the contemporary approach to Irish country houses.

The treasures of mid-century American architecture have long been celebrated. Less appreciated has been the landscape design that provides the framing for these masterworks. But more than frame, landscape architecture is an art worthy of the spotlight, particularly at mid-century, when the notion that “gardens are outdoor spaces for people to live in” was championed and brought to the fore; now gardens and landscapes are not just external attributes to the house but a continuation of it and its living spaces in a relationship of symbiosis, with its pools and terraces, its winding lawns, and its partly enclosed room-like spaces flanked by brick or stone or plantings in a range of colors and forms.

Flanigan looks at the home on a room-by-room basis, identifying common design challenges, offering solutions on how to create rooms that are aesthetically pleasing and efficient. With examples chosen from her work, she shares seasoned wisdom and creative approaches to every decision ranging from building materials and architectural details to furnishings, color, textiles, accessories, and organization.