The essential purpose of a staircase is utilitarian: to facilitate ascent and descent. Yet the design of even the simplest stair is complex, requiring great knowledge, skill and ingenuity. This volume showcases the astonishing diversity of staircases over the centuries, from the stepped pyramids of the Maya to the exquisitely proportioned stairs of the Renaissance, to the elaborate balustraded confections of the Baroque period, to the virtuosic, computer-aided designs of today. A superb range of photographs, many specially taken for this publication, illustrates clear and accessible written surveys by specialist architectural historians. From Renaissance masterpieces, the sweeping curves of Art Nouveau, the functional beauty of the Bauhaus, to high-tech contemporary dream creations, the staircase is a powerful emblem of technological and artistic achievement. Architectural tours de force all, often charged with religious, mystical and hierarchical meaning, these staircases are inherently dynamic, as is every page of this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book.

Staircase

Arts & Photography

Tusquets, Oscar

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

<p>Memorias de infancia y juventud de Esther y Oscar Tusquets. Memorias escritas a cuatro manos que reflejan la una epoca determinada, tras la Guerra Civil Espanola y poco antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta los primeros anos de Universidad. La figura del padre, medico metido a regentar el negocio de seguros familiar; la madre, una mujer avanzada a su epoca y distante; la relacion entre los hermanos. La identidad, la familia, la reconstruccion del pasado, la reelaboracion de la memoria. / Memories of youth and childhood of Esther and Oscar Tusquets. Written by four hands after the Spanish Civil War and before World War II, until the early years of college. The figure of the father, a doctor who run family insurance business; the mother, a woman ahead of her time and distant; the identity, the family, past reconstruction, and memory reprocessing.</p>

Tiempos que fueron (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Tusquets, Esther

Arts & Literature

Bruguera (Ediciones B)

Sketchbook: The Industrial Design Of Oscar Tusquets Blanca

Architecture

Apartamento Publishing S.L.v

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