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От производителя Калатрава, родившийся в 1951 году в пригороде Валенсии, окончил начальную и среднюю школу у себя на родине. Начиная с 1959 года он учился в валенсийской Школе искусств и ремесел, где получил начальную академическую подготовку в области рисунка и живописи. Когда мальчику было 13 лет, его родители воспользовались случаем - франкистская Испания тогда открыла границы - и отправили ...

"Это искусство или же архитектура? Или тогда уж, может быть, это вопрос формы или стиля? Современная архитектура вобрала в себя столько из других дисциплин, что во многом дифференцировала их. В этой книге представлены работы восьмидесяти семи разных архитекторов и архитектурных групп. У каждого из них свой собственный стиль, материалы и региональные особенности. Они строили как из бетона (Тадао Ан...

The man who built the future. Seven decades of work from the Brazilian visionary. Now over 100 years old, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is still practicing - over seven decades since one of his first projects, a 1936 collaboration with Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier. A technical pioneer and one of the 20th century's most important architects, Niemeyer has designed close to 700 r...

Ever since Henry David Thoreau’s described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects around the globe have become particularly interested in ...

Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando, and he is one of the greatest living architects. Combini...

Green architecture used to be on the fringes, but it has gone mainstream and this new volume shows how, why, and where. This is not a technical handbook, but rather a guided tour from one end of the globe to another where sustainability has become both chic and indispensible. Solar panels and double glazing are taking a dent out of the high cost of energy. As always in the Architecture Now book...

Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the past decade she has completed numerous structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (which the "New York Times" called "the most important new building in America since...