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Snoehetta, one of Scandinavia’s leading architecture practices, seeks to develop its architectures within a continuous state of reinvention Every project differs – only elementary aspects related to a broad sense of context generate core discussions when developing early concepts. Every architect is an individual – only referring her or himself to the social context of Snoehetta generates core values of communal thinking. The projects are examples of attitudes rather than designs. They are samples rather than products. They are associative rather than symbolic. They are comments rather than statements. The book describes the collective methods used when exercising the search for solutions to complex realities and shows Snoehetta’s architecture as a self-referential art within the uncertainties generated by the influence of our contemporary society. Projects like the library of Alexandria, the new opera house in Oslo or the Ras al Khaima gateway exemplify the intentions of the architects and give a hint of how they comment on given preconditions.

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Bernard Tschumi is a border crosser in the field of contemporary architecture. Equally present in Europe and the United States, he laid the cornerstone for his influential body of work two decades ago with a project that combines architecture and landscape architecture, theory and practice: the Parc de la Villette in Paris.

Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture in New York for many years and the author of numerous books on architectural theory, Tschumi possesses a body of work that is presented here in overview for the first time. His current projects include a high-rise apartment building in New York, the Zénith Concert Hall in Limoges, and the new Acropolis Museum in Athens.

Gilles de Bure, the author of numerous architectural publications on Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault, Christian de Portzamparc, and others, presents an in-depth analysis of Tschumi’s work.

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This beautiful photographic collection of urban train station design covers a 100-year period from roughly 1850 to 1950. Striking original photographs chronicle 40 large passenger station buildings still in existence in cities around the world. From the great terminals of London, across the world to Auckland, New Zealand; from Toronto's Union Station to the grand and crumbling Retiro Station in Buenos Aires—vastly different architectural forms are displayed and presented chronologically. One-third of the stations included are among the best America has to offer.

Still Standing: A Century of Urban Train Station Design outlines the history and development of large urban stations throughout the Western world. The basic physical forms and their evolution are reviewed in the context of the rapid growth of train travel. Christopher Brown discusses the arrival and impact of Beaux-Arts architecture in the 1890s and its profound effect on the American terminal. The end of the so-called golden era of passenger rail travel coincided with an architectural move away from the classicism of Beaux-Arts. New and different design forms appeared while passengers defected to other means of transportation.

These dazzling public structures have endured, but the photographs imply a disturbing question: How long will they survive?.
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30 x 23 cm144 pp páginas ilustradas en colortexto: english/españolPublicación trimestralISBN: 84·252·1927·2Mathias Klotz (Viña del Mar, Chile, 1965) es el personaje más internacional de la nueva generación de arquitectos chilenos. Su obra ha sido publicada en revistas especializadas de todo el mundo, especialmente a raíz de haber recibido el Premio Borromini (2001) al mejor arquitecto menor de 40 años por su conocido colegio Altamira en Santiago de Chile..
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2G 28 Aires MateusJoão Belo Rodeia, Alberto Campo Baeza (textos) 30 x 23 cm144 pp páginas ilustradas en colortexto: english/español/portuguêsPublicación trimestralISBN: 84·252·1945·0Los arquitectos Francisco y Manuel Aires Mateus ocupan actualmente un lugar y un protagonismo merecidos dentro del panorama de la arquitectura contemporánea portuguesa. La dimensión de los encargos públicos y privados, los concursos ganados en los últimos años, los innumerables premios recibidos y la divulgación de sus obras a nivel internacional son signos del reconocimiento de su obra. Este número de la revista 2G constituye la primera monografía de la obra de estos hermanos lisboetas y viene introducida con un texto del crítico João Belo Rodeia, un comentario de Alberto Campo Baeza sobre la casa en Alenquer y una "conversación informal" con su maestro Gonçalo Byrne y Valentino Capelo de Sousa. Entre las obras presentadas cabe señalar la magnífica residencia de estudiantes en el campus universitario de Coimbra, el rectorado de la Universidade Nova de Lisboa o los espléndidos ejercicios de viviendas unifamiliares, como la rehabilitación de una ruina de casa en Alenquer, la casa-patio de Alvalade, la casa de fin de semana en el litoral de Alentejo o la reconversión de un antiguo almacén de vino en vivienda en Brejos de Azeitão, todas ellas en Portugal..
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