Robert Stern is a recognized figure in the current architectural scene, but few successful architects are farther from the ‘starchitect’ image than he is. In the monumental book City Living, presenting residential buildings by Robert A.M. Stern Archi
Modern Movement architecture was born amid manifestos and controversies, and from the very start came with an impressive retinue of manuals and monographs. Orthodox history itself and the genealogies of modern architecture took off with force in 1923
This book is based on the view of Modern Movement works as historical buildings having attributes that blend them with monuments of a previous past, and offers a synthetic, documented, critical assessment of the restorations to which these works have
In the 1970s, the historian Marc Ferro tried to bring film studies into respectable academic domains, and found himself faced with lack of sympathy on the part of his austere colleagues, for whom the ‘seventh art’ was mere show business for the masse
What should good professors do when they retire? Put into writing everything they devoted their academic life to, before their teachings fall into oblivion. This is what Colin Rowe did with the original version of this book (2002), based on notes his
Mario Pani construyó la modernidad en México. Sus grandes innovaciones urbanas y arquitectónicas de mediados del siglo XX —como Ciudad Universitaria, Tlatelolco y Ciudad Satélite— le valieron el título de último estratega que se sentó delante del tab
