#books #architecture | DXA NYC : ten years of building on history

DXA NYC : ten years of building on history / contributors, Patrick Cullina... [et al.].
California : ORO editions, 2022
178 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Nueva York (N.Y.)

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781951541903
Cita APA-7: Cullina, Patrick (et al.) (2022). DXA NYC : ten years of building on history. ORO editions.
ehuBiblioteka A-72.036(73) DXA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1336993504

Building a city is an ongoing, additive act of creativity. Urban centers are continually being made and remade; they are palimpsests of the values, technologies, ingenuity, and aesthetics of times that precede ours and that were vital in shaping our present. The evolution of the city depends upon designers’ ability to find ways to preserve this past, while shaping a rich and resilient ecosystem for the future.

Whether designing carefully considered ground-up buildings or adapting older buildings for new life, building on history is a fundamental base for contemporary practice. This monograph explores the profound relationship between the past and future of architecture that defines DXA Studio’s practice. The book presents 14 projects that embrace history as a critical influence; they use New York City as a laboratory to implement this approach that acknowledges context and constraint as constructive, rather than restrictive. Integral to its time and place, such architecture offers a distinctive identity, clarity, and timelessness to the urban fabric.

The through line connecting the projects is DXA’s interest in the transformative power of architecture. When well-conceived and expertly crafted, buildings can be more than the sum of their materials. They activate the city in a meaningful way and can change entire neighborhoods, serving as a catalyst for growth and vitality.

Dispersed throughout the book are text pieces that contextualize the work and bring in the voices of leading thinkers on a variety of topics that support the typologies on display. These include three essays by authors who are experts in their fields, including Russell Shorto (author of The Island at the Center of the World) on The Shape of New York, Judith Zilczer (Curator Emeritus Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Art Historian) on De Kooning’s Space about the firm’s project at De Kooning’s former studio at 831 Broadway, and Patrick Cullina (landscape architect and horticulturalist) on Integrating Dynamic Landscape Design into Collaborative Praxis. There are also four ‘conversations’ between the DXA partners and prominent thinkers and professionals, including Robert Tierney (former chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission), Cas Stachelberg (Preservationist and Partner, Higgins & Quasebarth), Gregory Rogove (musician), and Gregory Wessner (Civic Leader and Executive Director of the National Academy of Design).

#books #architecture | An American renaissance : beaux-arts architecture in New York City

An American renaissance : beaux-arts architecture in New York City / Phillip James Dodd ; photography by Jonathan Wallen ; foreword by Julian Fellowes ; essay by Richard Guy Wilson.
Melbourne [etc.] : Images Publishing Group, 2021.
412 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XIX – Estados Unidos / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Nueva York (N.Y.)

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781864706819
Cita APA-7: Dodd, Phillip James (2021). An american renaissance : beaux-arts architecture in New York City. Images Publishing Group.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.036(73) ANA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1310410204

[.en] The Gilded Age, also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity, and cultural change. Spanning from the 1870s to the 1930s, it marks the first time that the titans of American finance and industry had more wealth than their European counterparts. As the centre of this dynamic economy, New York City attracted immigrant workers and millionaires alike. It was not enough for the self-appointed elite to just build their own grand châteaux and palazzos along Fifth Avenue―collectively they dreamed of creating a new metropolis to rival the great cultural capitals of London, Paris, and Rome. To flaunt their newly acquired wealth they needed an architecture dripping in embellishment and historical reference. Enter the Beaux-Arts.

This book, which has been painstakingly researched and beautifully photographed over many years, takes a close look at 20 of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City. While showing public exteriors, its focus is on the lavish interiors that are associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age―often providing a glimpse inside buildings not otherwise viewable to the public. While some of the buildings and monuments featured are world-renowned landmarks recognisable and accessible to all, others are obscure buildings that history has forgotten.

Set amid the magnificent achievements of an American Renaissance, this book recounts not only the fascinating stories of some of New York’s most famous and significant Beaux-Arts landmarks, it also recalls the lives of those who commissioned, designed, and built them. These are some of the most acclaimed architects, artists, and artisans of the day―Daniel Chester French, Cass Gilbert, Charles McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Stanford White―and some of the most prominent millionaires in American history―Henry Clay Frick, Jay Gould, Otto Kahn, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and the ubiquitous Astor and Vanderbilt families. Names that―as Julian Fellowes (the acclaimed director of Downton Abbey) notes in the Foreword―“still reek of money.”

#libros #urbanismo | Tiempos de Central Park

Tiempos de Central Park / Ángel Martínez García-Posada.
Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2011.
297 p. : il.
Serie: Textos Doctorales. Arquitectura ; 40.
/ ES / Libros / Central Park (Nueva York) / Parques – Estados Unidos / Urbanismo – Estados Unidos

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9788447213252
Cita APA-7: Martínez García-Posada, Ángel (2011). Tiempos de Central Park. Universidad de Sevilla.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.25 TIE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1055442494

[.es] Estos ‘Tiempos de Central Park’ pretende explicar de un modo abierto y continuo el desarrollo y trascendencia de un territorio urbano. Junto a ‘Lecturas, Escritos y Dibujos’, eran páginas de ‘Cuaderno Central Park’, pueden ser leídas en sentido descriptivo e interpretativo, modos diversos y arquitectónicos de aprehender un lugar, describir es interpretar y transformar.

Los Municipal Archives of New York City, donde hace pocos años se decidió reunir gran parte de la colección de dibujos originales del parque (The Department of Parks and Recreation Drawings Collection), son unas dependencias en la planta baja de una de las edificaciones del Ayuntamiento en la zona sur de la ciudad, a medio camino entre la Zona Cero y el comienzo de la ascensión al puente de Brooklyn. Antes he pasado por la escalinata del Ayuntamiento en la que hay un reducido grupo que protesta con pancartas y he recordado esa otra escalera bajo el reloj de la Plaza Nueva sevillana donde unas horas antes habrá habido alguna otra reivindicación, pero aquí, rodeados de edificios altos, en el corazón del downtown, pasan casi desapercibidos, este no es el escenario más fotografiado de la ciudad. Aún no eran las nueve, ocupaba el tiempo hasta que abrieran al público los archivos. En estos minutos de espera, en el ecuador de mi estancia neoyorquina en búsqueda de datos sobre Central Park, me ha entretenido recordar el edificio de Diego de Riaño y la explicación de Francisco Montero de su condición de charnela entre dos espacios libres de naturaleza tan diferente, la Plaza Nueva y la Plaza de San Francisco. No hacía mucho paseaba por ésta, la estructura de los palcos estaba ya apilada, a la espera de su enésimo montaje. Al levantar la cabeza y atisbar el remate del Woolworth de Cass Gilbert, la escala de Manhattan me trajo de nuevo a la realidad, era una comparación difícil. El edificio de los Archives, en el nº 31 de Chamber Street, está mal señalizado. La primera vez, distraído por la conversación telefónica con mi padre y concentrado en el frío que sentía en la reducida porción de mano que asomaba del guante para manipular el móvil, pasé de largo. Son tantas las banderas de barras y estrellas sobre las cornisas de Manhattan que otra más casi no se nota. [...]

#books #landscape | The High Line : foreseen, unforeseen

The High Line : foreseen, unforeseen / James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
London : Phaidon, 2020.
397 p. : il
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura del paisaje – Estados Unidos / Espacios públicos / Nueva York (N.Y.) / Urbanismo – Estados Unidos / Zonas de recreo 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781838660772
Cita APA-7: James Corner Field Operations, & Diller Scofidio Renfro (2020). The high line : foreseen, unforeseen. Phaidon.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-712.25 HIG
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1159225428

[.en] The first-hand, behind-the-scenes account of the creative inspiration behind the High Line, the transformative public 'park in the sky' that has reshaped global perceptions of urban space – and become one of the most beloved and visited destinations in New York City. The first full documentation that visually charts the journey of this global landmark from the designer's point of view. Hundreds of illustrations showcase every aspect of the project and its unforeseen influence in its entirety. Includes previously unpublished archival materials such as the drawings behind the original proposal and exclusive images of construction. The book mirrors the architecture and composition of the park through its large landscape format with foldouts, surprising packaging and inserts. More than a visual masterpiece – its seven chapters are well-organized, legible, comprehensive and accessible. Detailed, obsessive, quirky, compelling, and beautiful, the book captures the essence of the High Line. The book for design enthusiasts including architects, landscape designers and urban planners - as well as for general-interest lovers of New York City, culture, art, gardens, and city life.

#books #guides #architecture | Architectural guide : New York : a critic's guide to 100 iconic buildings in New York from 1999 to 2020

Architectural guide : New York : a critic's guide to 100 iconic buildings in New York from 1999 to 2020 / Vladimir Belogolovsky.
Berlin : DOM, 2019.
255 p. : il.
Serie: Architectural guide.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Guías / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Estados Unidos / Nueva Yor

📕 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783869224312 
Cita APA-7: Belogolovsky, Vladimir (2019). Architectural guide : New York : a critic's guide to 100 iconic buildings in New York from 1999 to 2020. DOM.
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-(036)72(73) ARC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127050748

[.en] This architectural guide brings together 100 of the most original structures built in New York City since 1999. Vladimir Belogolovsky pairs them with such nicknames as Guillotine, Peacock, Shark’s Fin, Turtle Shell, and Woodpecker. The New York-based author’s selection covers buildings realized by the world’s most renowned architects, in a period when their creations were celebrated as art, and personal styles were encouraged by the ­media, critics, and clients. The featured time span begins with the rise of the starchitect in the late 1990s, and ends in the present day. But the mission of the book is not only to document; it is also to celebrate New York’s transformative ­energy. Many of the buildings were designed either by ­foreign architects or those who settled in the city and now call it home. Through witty, incisive commentary, catchy nick­names, quotes from the author’s interviews with the architects, and detailed maps, this singular guide allows readers to see many of New York’s con­temporary icons in a new way.

#books #filmmaking | World film locations : New York

World film locations : New York / edited by Scott Jordan Harris.
Bristol : Intellect Books, 2011.
126 p. : il.
Serie: World Film Locations.
/ EN / Libros / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Nueva York 

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9781841504827
Cita APA-7: Harris, Scott Jordan (2011). World film locations: New York. Intellect Books. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 WOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127648751

[.en] Presenting a varied and thought-provoking collage of the city onscreen – from the silent era to the present – ‘World Film Locations: New York’ provides a fascinating and historic look back at the rich diversity of locations that have provided the backdrop for some of the most memorable films. 

Be they period films, cult classics or elaborate directorial love letters, New York City has played – and continues to play – a central role in the imaginations of filmmakers and moviegoers worldwide. The stomping grounds of King Kong, it is also the place where young Jakie Rabinowitz of ‘The Jazz Singer’ realizes his Broadway dream. Later, it is the backdrop against which taxi driver Travis Bickle exacts a grisly revenge. 

The inaugural volume in an exciting new series from Intellect, ‘World Film Locations: New York’ pairs incisive profiles of quintessential New York filmmakers –among them Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet and Spike Lee– with essays on key features of the city’s landscape that have appeared on the big screen, from the docks to Coney Island, Times Square to the Statue of Liberty. More than forty-five location-specific scenes from films made and set in New York are separately considered and illustrated with screen shots and photographs of the locations as they appear now. For film fans keen to follow the cinematic trail either physically or in the imagination, this pocket-sized guide also includes city maps with information on how to locate key features.

#books #filmmaking | Scenes from the city : filmmaking in New York

Scenes from the city : filmmaking in New York / edited by James Sanders ; contributions by Martin Scorsese and Nora Ephron ; produced with Commissioner Katherine Oliver and the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment.
New York : Rizzoli, 2013 / [ed. rev. and expanded].
336 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Cine / Cine – Exteriores / Ciudades en el cine / Nueva Yor

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9780847842902
Cita APA-7: Sanders, James (ed.) (2013). Scenes from the city : filmmaking in New York (Rev. and expanded. ed.). Rizzoli. 
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-791.43:72 SCE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127579739

[.en] ‘Scenes from the City’ is a celebration of the rise of New York-shot films, particularly after the MOFTB was formed in 1966 making the city a much more welcoming film location. New York could, once again, lure talent such as Woody Allen and Martin Scorcese, to its streets - streets that could provide both a desolate urban prairie for Midnight Cowboy or a delightful 5th Avenue shopping romp for a Mrs. Golightly. New York's cityscape has enriched the movies it's been a part of with its diverse and entrancing visage, not unlike the faces of the industry's most beautiful and talented actors and actresses. ‘Scenes from the City’ is an affectionate ovation for this 'character' that rarely receives billing, but always steals the show.

#books #architecture | Gordon Bunshaft and SOM : building corporate modernism

Gordon Bunshaft and SOM : building corporate modernism / Nicholas Adams.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
VII, 288 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300227475
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Gordon Bunshaft / Nueva York / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72BUNSHAFT GOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1126995974

Gordon Bunshaft’s (1909–1990) landmark 1952 design for Lever House reshaped the Manhattan skyline and elevated the reputation of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the firm where he would spend more than 40 years as a partner. Although this enigmatic architect left behind few records, his legacy endures in the corporate headquarters, museums, and libraries that were built in his distinctive modernist style. Bunshaft’s career was marked by shifts in material. Glass and steel structures of the 1950s, such as New York’s Chase Manhattan Bank, gave way to revolutionary designs in concrete, such as the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University and the doughnut-shaped Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Bunshaft’s collaborations with artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Jean Dubuffet, and Henry Moore, were of paramount importance throughout his career.

Nicholas Adams explores the contested line between Bunshaft’s ambition for acclaim as a singular artistic genius and the collaborative structure of SOM’s architectural partnership. Bunshaft received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1988 and remains the only SOM partner to have achieved this distinction. Adams counters Bunshaft’s maxim that “the building speaks for itself” with necessary critical context about this modernist moment at a time when the future of Bunshaft’s iconic works is very much in question.

#books #architecture | Wright and New York : the making of America's architect

Wright and New York : the making of America's architect / Anthony Alofsin.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
343 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300238853
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Frank Lloyd Wright / Nueva York
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72WRIGHT WRI
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1105925743

[.en] A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city’s role in establishing the career of America’s most famous architect. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) took his first major trip to New York in 1909, fleeing a failed marriage and artistic stagnation. He returned a decade later, his personal life and architectural career again in crisis. Booming 1920s New York served as a refuge, but it also challenged him and resurrected his career. The city connected Wright with important clients and commissions that would harness his creative energy and define his role in modern architecture, even as the stock market crash took its toll on his benefactors.

Wright denounced New York as an “unlivable prison” even as he reveled in its culture. The city became an urban foil for Wright’s work in the desert and in the “organic architecture” he promoted as an alternative to American Art Deco and the International Style. New York became a major protagonist at the end of Wright’s life, as he spent his final years at the Plaza Hotel working on the Guggenheim Museum, the building that would cement his legacy.

Anthony Alofsin has broken new ground by mining the recently opened Wright archives held by Columbia University and the Museum of Modern Art. His foundational research provides a crucial and innovative understanding of Wright’s life, his career, and the conditions that enabled his success. The result is at once a stunning biography and a glittering portrait of early twentieth-century Manhattan.

#books #guides #architecture | NYC walks : guide to new architecture

NYC walks : guide to new architecture / John Hill ; photography by Pavel Bendov.
Munich [etc.] : Prestel, 2019.
223 p. : il.
ISBN 9783791384900
/ EN / Libros / Guías / Arquitectura – Guías / Arquitectura – Siglo XXI – Estados Unidos / Nueva York
ehuBiblioteka BCG Referencia A-(036)72(73) NYC
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1101426040

[.en] The first-ever walking tour guide of New York City's stunning contemporary architecture showcases the most intriguing new buildings in the city. It can be hard to keep up with New York City's surge of cutting-edge architecture since the turn of the millennium. This portable, easy-to-use guide directs readers to the city's newest architectural gems, all completed in the 21st century with some still under construction. Divided into ten 1- to 3-mile walks that extend from Columbia University through lower Manhattan and across to Brooklyn and Queens, this guidebook highlights over 150 buildings, popular destinations like the High Line and Lincoln Center, and trendy locations such as Williamsburg and the Bowery. Led by author John Hill, these tours are highly informative, engaging, and filled with fascinating insights and details. Maps and numerous photographs make this guide the perfect companion for anyone visiting New York City, architecture buffs, and those wishing to better know the city they call home.

#books #architecture | Classical New York : discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham

Classical New York : discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham / Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew M. McGowan, editors.
New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2018.
XII, 283 p. : il.
ISBN 9780823281022
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XIX – Estados Undios / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Nueva York / Neoclasicismo (Arquitectura)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72(73) CLA
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1084725991

[.en] During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city’s art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York’s most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces.

‘Classical New York’ examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century’s Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces.

Specialists from a range of disciplines―archaeology, architectural history, art history, classics, and history― focus on how classical art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York City’s most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new light during the Great Depression.

Designed to add breadth and depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today, this examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space―be it civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic―and how we make use of that space and the objects in it.

#books #architecture | Broadway : a history of New York City in thirteen miles

Broadway : a history of New York City in thirteen miles / Fran Leadon.
New York [etc.] : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
XVI, 512 p. : il.
ISBN 9780393240108
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Estados Unidos / Nueva York
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72(73) BRO
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1083264148

[.en] An eye-opening history of Manhattan told through its most celebrated street. In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the street grew longer, houses and taverns began to spring up alongside it. What was once New Amsterdam became New York, and farmlands gradually gave way to department stores, theaters, hotels, and, finally, the perpetual traffic of the twentieth century’s Great White Way. From Bowling Green all the way up to Marble Hill, Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America’s most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at the heart of Manhattan.

Today, Broadway almost feels inevitable, but over the past four hundred years there have been thousands who have tried to draw and erase its path. Following their footsteps, we learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness the construction of Trinity Church, the Flatiron Building, and the Ansonia Hotel; the burning of P. T. Barnum’s American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum. Along the way we meet Alexander Hamilton, Emma Goldman, Edgar Allan Poe, John James Audubon, "Bill the Butcher" Poole, and the assorted real-estate speculators, impresarios, and politicians who helped turn Broadway into New York’s commercial and cultural spine.

Broadway traces the physical and social transformation of an avenue that has been both the "Path of Progress" and a "street of broken dreams," home to both parades and riots, startling wealth and appalling destitution. Glamorous, complex, and sometimes troubling, the evolution of an oft-flooded dead end to a canyon of steel and glass is the story of American progress.

#libros #arquitectura #urbanismo | Delirio de Nueva York : un manifiesto retroactivo para Manhattan

Delirio de Nueva York : un manifiesto retroactivo para Manhattan / Rem Koolhaas ; traducción de Jorge Sainz.
Barcelona : Gustavo Gili, 2004.
ISBN 9788425219665
/ ES / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XIX – Estados Unidos / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Nueva York / Urbanismo – Estados Unidos
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-711.4(73) DEL
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/55595067
Ed. electrónica:
eLibro / Acceso personal UPV-EHU

[.es] Manhattan es el escenario donde se representa el último acto de la civilización occidental. Con la explosión demográfica y la invasión de las nuevas tecnologías, Manhattan se ha convertido, desde mediados del siglo XIX, en el laboratorio de una nueva cultura, la de la congestión; una isla mítica donde se hace realidad el inconsciente colectivo de un nuevo modo de vida metropolitano, una fábrica de lo artificial donde lo natural y lo real han dejado de existir. Delirio de Nueva York es un "manifiesto retroactivo", una interpretación de la teoría no formulada que subyace en el desarrollo de Manhattan; es el relato de las intrigas de un urbanismo que, desde sus inicios en Coney Island hasta los teóricos del rascacielos, ha hecho explotar su retícula de origen. Este libro, polémico y premonitorio (publicado originalmente en 1978), ilustra las relaciones entre un universo metropolitano mutante y la singular arquitectura que puede producir; y afirma también que, con frecuencia, la arquitectura genera la cultura.

#books #architecture | New architecture New York

New architecture New York / [introductory text Alexandra Lange ; photography, Pavel Bendov].
Prestel, Munich [etc.] : 2017.
219 p. : principalmente il.
ISBN 9783791383682
Arquitectura -- Siglo XXI -- Estados Unidos.
Nueva York (N. Y.)
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.038(73) NEW
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1871894~S1*spi

A magnificent photographic compilation of New York City’s best new architecture, this book features projects by leading firms working today. From Bjarke Ingels Group’s VIA West 57 to SHoP Architects’ Barclays Center, and from Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s High Line to SOM’s One World Trade Center, New York City has been home to some of this century’s most exciting new architecture. Profiling more than fifty projects that are shaping the city’s streets and skylines, this book features color photographs of each building and a brief, informative text about its significance. Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Foster + Partners, Selldorf Architects, Gehry Partners, and Adjaye Associates are just some of the firms that have recently completed projects in New York City. Visitors to the city as well as its denizens will find this book an exhilarating guide, while fans of architecture will gain an even greater appreciation of the city’s unprecedented development in the past fifteen years by the world’s best architects.

#libros #arquitectura | Donde se rompen las nubes : Lever House, Nueva York 1950

Donde se rompen las nubes : Lever House, Nueva York 1950 / Sergio de Miguel García.

Diseño, Buenos Aires : 2016.
423 p. : il.
Colección: Textos de Arquitectura y Diseño.
ISBN 9789874000873
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Estados Unidos.
Edificios de oficinas -- Estados Unidos.
Lever House (Nueva York, N. Y.)
Nueva York (N.Y.)
Rascacielos.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.011.27 DON
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1864839~S1*spi 

Otra ed.: Donde se rompen las nubes [Recurso electrónico] : Lever House : Nueva York 1950 / Sergio de Miguel García ; director, Javier Frechilla Camoiras. Tesis Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ETS Arquitectura. Fecha defensa: 2015
TEXTO COMPLETO | Archivo Digital UPM
http://oa.upm.es/40369/

En la victoriosa América de la posguerra, origen de la nueva configuración del mundo occidental, surgió una singular obra que iba a representar la abstracción de los valores universales de la arquitectura moderna. La construcción de la Lever House en el Nueva York de 1950 no solo iba a propiciar un punto de inflexión en la Historia del rascacielos y de la arquitectura corporativa americana, definiría a su vez un nuevo paradigma a partir del cual se establecerían generalizados modelos para la construcción del futuro. La oportuna confluencia entre los acentos pragmáticos del mundo capitalista americano y las formulaciones positivistas de la arquitectura moderna europea, convenientemente recogidas como manifiesto construido del Etilo Internacional, supusieron resolver de manera definitiva el prolongado dilema americano de cómo debería ser la adecuada representación del edificio corporativo moderno. El estudio se detendrá en el valor de la metáfora, la conversación y la oportunidad de una obra cuya proyección trascendió ampliamente las aspiraciones de sus creadores. Provocando una fuerte idealización que llegaría hasta nuestros días.

#libros #arquitectura | La construcción del Nueva York moderno : protagonistas, obras y significados

La construcción del Nueva York moderno : protagonistas, obras y significados / Miguel Aguiló.
Grupo ACS, Madrid : 2014.
431 p. : il. col. y n., map., plan., fot. / Bibliogr.: p. 418-421.
ISBN 9788469715260
Arquitectura -- Estados Unidos.
Urbanismo -- Estados Unidos.
Nueva York (N.Y.)
Sbc Aprendizaje A-711.4(73) CON
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1859294~S1*spi

Edición en inglés:
Building modern New York : people, works and meanings / Miguel Aguiló.
Grupo ACS, Madrid : 2014.
ISBN 9788469717844
Sbc Aprendizaje A-711.4(73) BUI
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Frente a la escala y complejidad de Nueva York, las buenas ideas no son suficientes por sí mismas. Se necesita arrojo y tesón para defenderlas y astucia y fortaleza para llevarlas a cabo. En Nueva York todo cuanto ocurre es discutido, negociado y empujado, o no llega a suceder. Por esta razón el análisis de la ciudad se aborda a través de las figuras de ciertos individuos con capacidad suficiente para movilizar poder, dinero e influencia en torno a sus ideas. Son auténticos catalizadores de la formación de la ciudad, que con constancia y habilidad lograron llevar complicados procesos a buen fin o, por el contrario, paralizarlos y cancelarlos.

El libro se abre con una reflexión general sobre la tensa e incesante construcción de la ciudad. La irrupción de lo nuevo, la modernidad, el concepto de metrópolis, la recurrencia al arte, el protagonismo de lo público, el vínculo indisoluble entre construcción y destrucción, los conflictos de escala, el parque como recorrido, la ostentación de lo corporativo, la fuerza de los barrios o el pulso de las crisis son asuntos esenciales para la vida de la ciudad e indispensables para entenderla.

Tras este relato general salen a escena los 14 personajes protagonistas del relato. El capítulo 3 agrupa lo ocurrido en el siglo XIX, como estructuración básica de la ciudad para su inminente crecimiento, en torno a la figura de John B. Jervis. En el capítulo 4, John A. Roebling aparece como emblema de lo nuevo, y trae consigo el Brooklyn Bridge como su materialización, también mostrada por el Flatiron Building. El capítulo 5 se construye en torno a Frederick Law Olmsted, conocido como autor del Central Park y de todo un sistema de parques y vías de comunicación. El capítulo 6 está protagonizado por la firma McKim, Mead & White, responsable de gran parte de los edificios institucionales de Manhattan. Los capítulos 7 y 8 dan entrada a los flujos masivos de transporte generados por la aglomeración, agrupados primero en torno a William J. Wilgus y los ferrocarriles, y luego junto a Thomas Adams y la planificación. La ciudad empieza a colonizar el subsuelo con túneles, trenes y Metro, sólo visibles desde el exterior en la excepcional Grand Central Station. El capítulo 9 es protagonizado por Wallace K. Harrison, capitán del protagonismo corporativo como sustituto de la presencia de las instituciones en la imagen de Nueva York. La ciudad se eleva con el rascacielos y afloran sus emblemáticos Empire State Bd., y el Rockefeller Center. El capítulo 10 propone una pausa de reflexión crítica en torno a la figura de Lewis Mumford, tras la crisis financiera de 1929. Los capítulos 11 y 12 examinan el efecto expansivo de las medidas del New Deal para superar esas crisis, en torno a las figuras de Robert Moses y Othmar Ammann: el emblema de su conjunta labor es el Cross Manhattan Expressway. El capítulo 13 se aglutina en torno a Austin Tobin, impulsor de la New York & New Jersey Port Authority. El capítulo 14 se centra en la figura de Jane Jacobs, capaz de aglutinar la oposición popular hasta paralizar algunas iniciativas, potencialmente destructivas de ciertos barrios como el Village o el SoHo y toda una manera de vivir la ciudad. El capítulo 15 recopila algunos ejemplos de la esplendorosa y contradictoria manera de construir de toda una época en torno a la figura del controvertido Philip Johnson, con el contrapunto de la firma Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) y las aportaciones de notables arquitectos, con productos como las Naciones Unidas, el Lincoln Center y la Ford Foundation o escenarios como Times Square. El personaje de Amanda Burden, se ha elegido para aglutinar los últimos años en el capítulo 16, como impulsora incansable del nuevo espíritu asumido por la ciudad para renovarse tras una tragedia, varios desastres y una gran crisis. Nuevas o recuperadas piezas, como la High Line, dinamizan la ciudad mientras aparecen realizaciones de conocidos arquitectos, tales como Frank Ghery, Jean Nouvel, o Christian de Portzamparc.

Lo anterior se complementa con un último capítulo orientado a los lectores, aproximación a cuatro maneras de asomarse a la ciudad a través de paseos, atrios, jardines y escenarios.

Finalmente se incluye un capítulo con las últimas y más relevantes realizaciones de ACS en todo el mundo.

#books #architecture | Designing TWA : Eero Saarinen’s airport terminal in New York

Designing TWA : Eero Saarinen’s airport terminal in New York / Kornel Ringli.
Park Books, Zurich : 2015.
222 p. : il.
ISBN 9783906027753
Aeropuertos -- Construcciones.
Aeropuertos -- Estados Unidos.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Estados Unidos.
Nueva York (N.Y.)
Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72SAARINEN DES
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When it opened in 1962, the TWA Flight Center at New York’s JFK airport was a sensation. Created by Eero Saarinen with a distinctly birdlike design, it was instantly seen as a striking emblem of the romance of air travel. More than half a century later, it remains a beloved icon of modern architecture. ‘Designing TWA’ is the first book to tell the whole story of Saarinen’s building, from its early planning through its closing in 2001 after the takeover of TWA by American Airlines. Documenting the terminal’s commission, planning, building, and use, architect Kornel Ringli reveals the constant tension between the operational needs of the airline and Saarinen’s visionary imaginings—revealing the TWA building as an incredible architectural achievement that nonetheless failed to meet the day-to-day demands of the business it housed. Lavishly illustrated with archival photographs, ‘Designing TWA’ is an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the making of a modern masterpiece.

#books #architecture | Ralph Walker : architect of the century

Ralph Walker : architect of the century / Kathryn E. Holliday.
Rizzoli, New York : 2012
159 p. : il. n. y col.
ISBN 9780847838882
Walker, Ralph, 1889-1973.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Estados Unidos.
Nueva York (N.Y.)
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72WALKER RAL
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The first book dedicated to the career of one of New York’s most successful and prolific yet forgotten architects. Ralph Walker shaped New York’s skyline during the Roaring Twenties, from the iconic Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building at 140 West Street to the luxurious Irving Trust bank tower at 1 Wall Street in the heart of the city’s financial district. Walker was a master of modern ornament, using his skills as a designer to "humanize" the skyscraper and the city itself. In 1957, a New York Times headline proclaimed Walker "architect of the century," an honor bestowed by his fellow architects celebrating his "brilliance" as a philosopher and a humanitarian. Walker shaped the Chicago and New York World’s Fairs of the 1930s and became an outspoken advocate for his vision of a humane American city. Across the fifty years of his practice, Walker remained dedicated to defining a modern architecture from the dramatic towers of the dense city to the serene landscapes of the suburbs. Ralph Walker: Architect of the Century is the first monograph to present this forgotten vision of twentieth-century architecture.

#books #architecture | Building Seagram

Building Seagram / Phyllis Lambert ; foreword by Barry Bergdoll

Yale University Press, New Haven [etc.] : 2013

xiv, 306 p. : il.

ISBN 9780300167672

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.

Rascacielos -- Estados Unidos.

Edificios de oficinas -- Estados Unidos.

Arquitectura -- Siglo XX -- Estados Unidos.

Nueva York (N.Y.)

Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.011.27 BUI

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The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman’s daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when she took over the search for an architect and chose Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), a pioneering modern master of what he termed “skin and bones” architecture. Mies, who designed the elegant, deceptively simple thirty-eight-story tower along with Philip Johnson (1906–2005), emphasized the beauty of structure and fine materials, and set the building back from the avenue, creating an urban oasis with the building’s plaza. Through her choice, Lambert established her role as a leading architectural patron and singlehandedly changed the face of American urban architecture.

“Building Seagram” is a comprehensive personal and scholarly history of a major building and its architectural, cultural, and urban legacies. Lambert makes use of previously unpublished personal archives, company correspondence, and photographs to tell an insider’s view of the debates, resolutions, and unknown dramas of the building’s construction, as well as its crucial role in the history of modern art and architectural culture.

LINKS

Yale University Press | Building Seagram

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300167672

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DOCUMENTACIÓN

Building Seagram, por Phyllis Lambert

Metalocus, 2013-01-12

http://www.metalocus.es/content/es/blog/building-seagram-por-phyllis-lambert