Title & Author:

TEN Arquitectos/Enrique Norten : los límites de la forma = the limits of form / edition and design, Alejandro Hernández Gálvez ; texts, Robert McCarter [and others].

Edition:

1. ed.

Publication:

México, D.F. : Arquine : Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2012.

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Projects: Biblioteca De Artes Visuales y Escénicas/Visual and Performing Arts Library -- BAM South site -- Museo Universitario Del Chopo/ Chopo Museum -- One York -- Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica Para La Biodiversidad/National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity -- Museo Guggenheim Museum -- Munpic -- Teatro Metropolitano De Querétaro/Queretaro Metropolitan Theater -- Mercedes house -- Américas 1905/1905 Americas Avenue -- College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University -- Plan Maestro y Escuela De Negocios De Livingston Campus, Rutgers University/Livingston Campus Master Plan Business School utgers University -- Hôtel Americano -- Brisas Marqués -- 580 Carroll Street -- Terminal De Autobuses De La Autoridad Portuaria/Port Authority Bus Terminal -- Oficinas Centrales Del Issste en Buenavista/ISSSTE Headquarters at Buenavista -- Centro de Atención Ciudadana/City Hall -- The Ivy -- Plan Maestro y Centro de Investigación y Estudios del Agua, Xochimilco -- Paseo Tabasco y Museo Elevado de Villahermosa/Paseo Tabasco and Elevated Museum of Villahermosa -- Edifico De Juzgados/Federal Court Building -- Museo De Arte Moderno De Medellín/Medellin Modern Art Museum -- Museo Amparo/Amparo Museum ; Galerías Serdán ; Torre Santander/Santander Tower -- West End Square.
Includes bibliographical references.
Essays. The limits of form : critical practice and the creation of place / Robert McCarter -- Projecting and communicating / Miquel Adrià -- Farther / Sylvia Lavin -- The lightness of Enrique Norten / Detlef Mertins -- The rational architecture of Enrique Norten / Witold Rybczynski -- The architectural and the battles of TEN Arquitectos / Jose Castillo -- Continuous variations / Alejandro Hernández Gálvez -- Recent projects -- Complete work.
Texts in Spanish and English.

Summary:

The work of TEN architects (Taller Enrique Norten Arquitectos), a Mexicanarchitectural firm located in New York has achieved the synthesis of formal composition, with the materiality and topography of the context involved. This book comprises a series ofseven essays by different renowned authors who analyze the contemporary architecture of bold geometries and new technologies harmoniously combined with past reminiscences that has revolutionized through high-tech the national practice since the 1990's. The main body of the book consists of a compilation of their most recent work and includes a full catalogue of his repertoire of projects.

ISBN:

6077784206 (Arquine)
9786077784203 (Arquine)
9786074558746 (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes)
6074558744 (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes)

Subject:

Norten, Enrique, 1954-
TEN Arquitectos (Firm)
Architecture Mexico History 21st century.
Architecture Mexique Histoire 21e siècle.
Architecture
Mexico

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Hernández Gálvez, Alejandro.
McCarter, Robert, 1955-

Límites de la forma
Limits of form

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283135
Call No.: BIB 221161
Status: Available