Alvaro Siza: Complete Works |
Kenneth Frampton ISBN: 0714846333 The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza (b.1933) is one of the world's most respected architects. The recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1992, Siza has built and taught in Portugal and internationally...(read more) |
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Directory of Spanish and Portuguese Film-Makers and Films |
Rafael De Espana ISBN: 0313294593 Provides bio-filmographies of some 215 prominent Spanish and Portuguese film-makers who worked in these countries between 1896 and 1994. Full attention is given to the propaganda cinema under dictators Franco and Salazar, to film-makers who left to work...(read more) |
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Mirror, Mirror / Espelho Meu: Portugal as Seen by 13 "Magnum" Photographers / Portugal Visto Por Fotografos Da "Magnum" |
Delfim Sardo, Diane Dufour, Alexandra Fonseca, Andrea Holzherr ISBN: 3865211488 In 2004 the Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon initiated the exhibition project MIRROR, MIRROR, Portugal as seen by 13 "Magnum" photographers. The book which accompanies the exhibition is a reflection on Portugal featuring the personal visions...(read more) |
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Musa Book: Fulfilment of a Dream - And Birth of an Identity? |
Paulo Lima, Raquel Viana, Ricardo Alexandre ISBN: 9889809702 It all started one summer afternoon in 2003. There is a dream, an idea, a huge will to do something - to do something for Portugal designs sake. Merely two years later, part of the dream come true, a "MusaBook" is published by IdN, the...(read more) |
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Portuguese 20th Century Artists: A Biographical Dictionary |
Michael Tannock ISBN: 0850333121 Sorry - no summary available. |
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Souto De Moura: Works and Projects |
Giovanni Leoni, Antonio Esposito ISBN: 190431323X Among the projects included in this monograph are the Central Market in Braga (1980-84), private houses in Nevogilde, Porto (1982-95) and at Quinta do Lago in the Algarve (1984-89), the pousada of Santa Maria do Bouro (1989-98), a state-owned inn...(read more) |
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The Fires of Excellence: Spanish and Portuguese Oriental Architecture |
Miles Danby ISBN: 1859640877 The oriental influence in Spain and Portugal has left a legacy of extraordinary architecture, celebrated by scholars, poets and artists. In this illustrated book, Miles Danby reveals the multi-layered cultural interactions which took place, and which...(read more) |
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The Manueline: Portuguese Art and Architecture During the Great Discoveries |
Museum with no frontiers ISBN: 187404452X This text reveals the splendours of an era that skilfully brought Portugal into the Modern Age. Alongside the formidable adventures of the Great Maritime Discoveries, King Manuel I (1469-1521) included the related fields of both Church and State in...(read more) |
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