Description

A leading Mexican architect's photographic panorama of the past century's greatest buildings

This beautifully designed volume offers an architect's portrait of modern and contemporary architecture. Through the lens of Alfonso Lop z Baz (born 1947), cofounder of the leading Mexican firm Grupo LBC Arquitectos, great buildings by some of the past century's finest architects are depicted with engaging and exquisite compositional drama. Lop z Baz's photographs are accompanied by phrases and thoughts from prominent architects that reflect on architecture and life.
Featured architects include: Tadao Ando, Luis Barrag n, Marcel Breuer, David Chipperfield, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Frederick P. Dinkelberg, Charles Eames, Ant n Garc a-Abril, Frank Gehry, Giles Gilbert Scott, Teodoro Gonz lez de Le n, Herzog & De Meuron, Alberto Kalach, Kisho Kurokawa, Javier Garc a Lascur in, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, Enrique Norten, Jean Nouvel, Juan O'Gorman, Renzo Piano, Eero Saarinen, SANAA, lvaro Siza, Kenzo Tange, TEN Arquitectos, Jos Villagr n Garc a and Rafael Vi oly.