"The definitive study of the great Spanish architect whose soaring work is allabout openness, energy and aspiration." - Met Home Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim with his breathtaking feats of architecture and engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. This updated volume comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings. His spectacular cultural and civic projects ...
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"The definitive study of the great Spanish architect whose soaring work is allabout openness, energy and aspiration." - Met Home Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim with his breathtaking feats of architecture and engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. This updated volume comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings. His spectacular cultural and civic projects have secured Calatrava's place in the pantheon of world-class 21st-century architects. Among these are the Athens Olympics Sports Complex; the Tenerife Concert Hall in the Spanish Canary Islands; the Valencia Science Museum, Planetarium, and Opera House, and the much-anticipated World Trade Center Transportation Hub. This newest edition introduces Calatrava's latest triumphs, including the expressive Turning Torso tower in Sweden and the Chicago Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the US when built. A catalogue raisonne, detailed biography, and bibliography complete this comprehensive monograph.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Third printing, 2006, hardcover with white cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 432pp., illustrated in color. Book fine with handsome white boards and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ VG+ with rubbing, mild toning and edgewear, faint scratch to front panel, looking fine in archival mylar wrap.
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Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0847829952. Book with front hinge pulled away from block, but, no pages lose. NO notes, names orANY markings. DJ VG with minor nick at spine head, only lightly rubbed, not clipped.; Ships in a box, USA.; Thick 4to; 480 pages; A very nice working copy.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover. 4to. 1st Edition, Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 4to with 432 pgs. The book and Dust Jacket are in very good condition with slight shelfwear/bumping to edges. The interior is clean and tight. The spine is white with dark gray text.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Quarto. 4to. 432 pp, featured project list, acknowledgments, Prologue: The Persistence of Flying; 1. Constructing Foundations, Unfolding Horizons; 2. Pregnant Moments, Nascent Structures; 3. Metamorphoses and Heuristic Dreams; 4. Morphogenetic Movements; 5. Spinozian Sculptures; 6. Landmarking; 7. Forms of the Body and Spirit; Epilogue: White Time; notes, bibliography, biography, catalogue raisonne, photocredits with color illustrations and b&w line drawings throughout. Not Price Clipped. Tiny closed tear to bottom edge rear panel dj with only the faintest wear to same, else, Pristine. No markings, tight binding, page surfaces clean, cloth crisp. 9.75" x 11.5." White cloth with blind-stamped lettering to front board, and grey letters to spine. Pictorial DJ in mylar protector. "Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim in recent years with his breathtaking feats of engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, beginning with his education in Valencia and Zurich, and continuing with the origins and development of his celebrated body of work, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings."
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Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.