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De Yturbe Arquitectos, Mexico
出版Turner, 2008
主題Architecture / GeneralArchitecture / RegionalArt / Individual Artists / MonographsArt / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN96890564179789689056416
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lq1LPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋José de Yturbe Bernal, born in 1942, has dug deeply into the roots of traditional Mexican architecture and set new standards in contemporary architectural aesthetics. The results are buildings that integrate with their surroundings organically, but by borrowing the strong lines, bold colors and generous use of space from his great predecessors in Mexican architecture, such as Luis Barragan (with whom De Yturbe Bernal studied) and Juan O'Gorman. De Yturbe Bernal founded De Yturbe Arquitectos in 1971, and since then the firm has completed nearly 200 projects, including private residences, corporate buildings, banks, museums, educational and cultural centers, hotels, tourist developments and golf clubs--in Mexico, the United States, the south of India, Spain, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Argentina. De Yturbe Arquitectos' designs promulgate a characteristic Mexican formal boldness, in which large cylinders and crisp rectangles play with sensuous curves and seemingly infinite fugues. Walls are treated as sculptures and so become canvases wherein, for example, a simple latticework might shape the light of the sun. Often water is put to work, to contrast with these solid surfaces, filling pools and fountains. With an introduction by José de Yturbe Bernal, and appreciations by Michael Calderwood, Fernando Cordero, Paul Czitrom and Luis Gordoa among others, this book is an important survey of one of Mexico's foremost contemporary architectural firms.