Coderch 1940-1964

Coderch 1940-1964

Author: José Antonio Coderch

Publisher: Col-Legi D'Arquitectes de Catalunya

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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This book discusses Joseph Antoni Coderch's architectural output during the period from 1940 to 1964, and includes much unpublished graphic material, as well as a catalog of his entire oeuvre.


Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean

Author: Jean-Francois Lejeune

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-04

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1135250278

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Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice and discourse from the 1920s to the 1960s.


100

100

Author: Gennaro Postiglione

Publisher: Taschen

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9783822863121

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"The present publication includes the work done by the MEAM Net research group at the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with 27 institutions Europe-wide. This work, titled "One hundred houses for one hundred European architects of the 20th century", bore fruit in a travelling exhibition and a website"


Key Houses of the Twentieth Century

Key Houses of the Twentieth Century

Author: Colin Davies

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781856694636

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Featuring over 100 of the most significant and influential houses of the twentieth century, For each of the houses included there are numerous, accurate scale plans showing each floor, together with elevations, sections and site plans where appropriate. All of these have been specially drawn for this book and are based on the most up-to-date information and sources.


Spain

Spain

Author: David Cohn

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2024-11-18

Total Pages: 639

ISBN-13: 1789145821

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An investigation of the influences and evolution of modern Spain’s underappreciated, but foundational, architecture. Spain’s remarkable twentieth-century architecture evolved against a turbulent background of revolution, civil war, dictatorship, and transition to democracy. Architecture played a key role in Spain’s struggle out of poverty and isolation, and its search for identity in the modern world. This book examines Spanish architecture from the roots of Modernism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, analyzing significant figures and their works in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts, as well as their contributions to architecture as a whole. From the austere, local Modernism of the 1920s, the influence of international trends in the ’30s, the renewed, “Organicist” Modernism of the ’50s and ’60s, to the flourishing public architecture of the late twentieth century and beyond, Spain provides a penetrating account of the country’s rich and varied built environment.


Hotel Lobbies and Lounges

Hotel Lobbies and Lounges

Author: Tom Avermaete

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-25

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1136489215

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This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and architecture. Hotels occupy a particular place in popular imagination. As a place of exclusive sociability and bohemian misery, a site of crime and murder and as a hiding place for illicit liaison, the hotel has embodied the dynamism of the metropolis since the eighteenth century. This book explores the architectural significance of hotels throughout history and how their material construction has reflected and facilitated the social and cultural practices for which they are renowned. Contemporary developments in the planning and design of hotels are addressed through a series of interviews and case studies. Illustrated throughout, this book is an innovative and important contribution to architectural and interior design theory literature.


Barcelona

Barcelona

Author: Manuel Gausa

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13:

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Texts by M. Gausa, M. Cervello and M. Pla. Introduction by Mihail Moldoveanu. Text by Kenneth Frampton. Barcelona is among the world's most architecturally important cities, and this book is clear evidence why. Documenting the period from 1860 to the present, this study covers the famous works of Gaudi, of Jujol, and of Mies van der Rohe's Barcellona Pavillion proposal. Rationalist works from the fifties, large housing developments from the 1970s, the buildings from the Olympics: all of Barcelona's triumphs are covered here in detail.


José Antonio Coderch

José Antonio Coderch

Author: José Antonio Coderch

Publisher: Editorial Gustavo Gili

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9788425221125

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José Antonio Coderch de Sentmenat was born in 1913 and died en Barcelona in 1984. These years delimit his life and work. But the great internal coherence of his thinking, distilled within his architecture, goes beyond these temporal limits, his own idiosyncrasy and the reduced geographical framework where it developed, to provide a reflection on architecture from an ethical standpoint. Although, recognised as the most important catalan architect after World War II, this implicit depth is perhaps one of the reasons his work has not been widely disseminated. This new edition in hardcover book format of 2G issue devoted to José Antonio Coderch presents a collection of houses constructed by the Catalan architect. It includes 11 houses, starting with the Ugalde House, the great work that marks the initiation of his mature phase. In it, not only does Coderch definitely embrace the language of modern architecture, nuanced by his respect for context, but also hones his own spatial conception of the house in nature. It is the experimental prototype for the following houses. In ordering these intuitions, the free lines of the first are not repeated.