Alan Weintraub Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

'Architektur muss überraschen' Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Niemeyers Architektur baut auf der klassischen Moderne Europas auf, um sie hinter sich zu lassen mit immer wieder neuen geschwungenen Linien und skulpturalen Formen. Damit bedient sich Niemeyer einer modernen Formensprache in der kolonialen Tradition hispanischer Barockbauten und greift Motive der Landschaften seiner Heimat auf. Was er in fast siebzig Jahren an öffentlichen Gebäuden für Brasilien errichtet hat, zeigen die außergewöhnlichen Aufnahmen Alan Weintraubs in vertrauter Opulenz. Beispiele in Europa bezieht Alan Hess in seine bebilderte Einführung ein. Die Bestandsaufnahme eines Werks, das noch immer wächst. - Fulminante Übersicht über die öffentlichen Gebäude Oscar Niemeyers - 102. Geburtstag des Architekten am 15. Dezember 2009 - Neue Fotografien von Alan Weintraub

At age 100, Oscar Niemeyer is universally acknowledged as a master of form, color, and light—the last living Modern master. Niemeyer is known primarily for his large-scale institutional and civic designs throughout Brazil and Europe—daringly conceptual works that challenged twentieth-century orthodoxy about Modernism, materials, and structure. This comprehensive book, a companion to Rizzoli’s Oscar Niemeyer Houses, presents a reevaluation of his greatest buildings, in all new color photography specially commissioned for this book. Featured are the architect’s most seminal work, including: Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro; Brasilia; New Pampulha Yacht Club, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Mondadori Headquarters, Milan; Le Havre Central Cultural Center, France; Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art, Brazil; and the Oscar Niemeyer Museum. A periodic resident of Rio de Janeiro, photographer Alan Weintraub has been granted unprecedented access to these remarkable structures—from Brazil to North Africa to Italy. As a result, Oscar Niemeyer Buildings reveals the master’s brilliant artistry, and his eloquent, sinuous, utterly livable Modernism.

Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from his Prairie style Robie House (1906) in Chicago, to the Storer (1923) and Freeman (1923) houses in Los Angeles, and Taliesen West (1937) in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture. For the first time, all 289 extant houses are shown here in exquisite color photographs. Along with Weintraub's stunning photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several leading Wright scholars. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses is an event of great importance and a major contribution to the literature on this titan of modern architecture.