Tadao Ando
Kobe.Japón.1984 Editorial Photography GG.Monografia Tadao Ando
The Koshino house is located in Ashiya a small city between Osaka and Lobe, two major urban centers of Japan. The house is divided into three volumes of concrete, where two of them are rectangular, parallel and partially connected by an underground corridor that defines a courtyard. One of the most elongated volume is high and one is oriented to the south and consists of rooms arranged linearly. A second volume of two levels in which are located on the ground floor dining room and kitchen on the ground floor and the master bedroom and a studio upstairs in his. Third, crescent-shaped and almost buried by the side, There is a small study.
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Stefan Antoni, Olmesdhal, Truen Architects SAOTA
Victoria Road, Bantry Bay. Cape Town, South Africa. 2010
A medium-sized family mansion that intelligently leverages the extraordinary conditions of the site that lies, a steep cliff facing the sea. The work is part of a suburb on the outskirts of Cities Cape in South Africa.
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Roberto Burle Marx
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, 1970
Detail walk pavement drawing. Image: Ellen Grossman, The Unatural Art of the Garden
Located in the southern part of the city, Copacabana beach is a crescent that local people have dubbed as the Princess of the Sea because of its cosmopolitan aura during the decades of 30, 40 and 50 twentieth century. In 1970, due to increased population density of the city, this avenue became a chaotic, where was the increased use of the road system for private vehicles while decreasing the width of the pedestrian space. In this situation, the City decide to remodel the ride diverting traffic and thereby achieve meojarar free space available.
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José LuisSert
64 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
Boston Massachussets, USA. 1958
This house was built by the Catalan architect for his family in the years he spent at Harvard University. Reflects to some extent the concerns that José Luis Sert had in those years. His proposal is to realize their ideas for housing with courtyards; were already experiencing something other figures meant international architecture as Mies van der Rohe or Arne Jacobsen.
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Josep Lluis Sert and Luis Lacasa
International Exhibition in Paris. France, 1937
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This Pavilion for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1937 was a unique building that represented the government of the Spanish Republic in the sample under conditions very difficult political and economic. Given that Spain was plunged enotnces in his last Civil War served as a propaganda tool for support to be granted by the allied powers. This building was located on Avenue du Trocadero near the pavilions of Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Ryue Nishizawa y Rei Nato
Isla Teshima, Takamatsu
Prefectura de Kagawa, Japan. 2010 The museum built on the coast of the island of Teshima. Image: Iwan Baan
This pavilion is one of the proposals made in 2010 within the activities of the Setouchi International Art Festival which is held every three years. Was raised as an artistic intervention conducted jointly by architect Ryue Nishizawa and artist Rei Nato.
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Alvar Aalto
Säynätsalo, Jiváskylä. Finland, 1952 The City of a small Finnish population is in the Isle of Saynatsalo, which has about three thousand inhabitants and then lived in a modest industry. Aalto would face in 1949 City Council to contest that was organized by the municipality, It was built at a difficult stage for the architect after the death of his wife and partner in design work.
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Carles Ferrater, Beth Figueras y Josep Canosa
Street Doctor Font i Quer. Montjuic Park.
Barcelona, Spain. 1999
 Access to the exhibition space of the Botanical Garden
This is a landscaped area of 14 hectares which is situated on one of the slopes of the mountain of Montjuic in Barcelona, one of the great open spaces that characterize the geography of the Catalan city.
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Arne Jacobsen
Copenhagen Denmark 1972-78
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John Fowler y Benjamin Baker
Edinburgh, Scotland. Britain. 1890
 Seen from one end of the bridge The Firth of Forth Bridge is one of the greatest engineering feats performed during the nineteenth century. It represents the first major steel bridge in the world would.
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