Rien n'est plus precieux que la famille et le souvenir de ces moments privilegies fait le sujet de grandes conversations. La meilleure facon de tenir un journal de ces souvenirs precieux est de posseder un 'Album Photo Familial'. Avec un tel album, vous pourrez garder facilement une trace de ces precieux souvenirs et de plus vous pourrez faire des annotations a chaque photo ainsi que la date et le lieu ou elle a ete prise.

In his first book, acclaimed interior designer Jay Jeffers displays the sophisticated yet playful spirit of his work. Jay Jeffers is known for his fearless and inventive use of colour and pattern, his brilliant mix of art and furnishings - including antique, vintage, modern - and the redefinition of traditional style from his modern point of view. Luxurious but livable, his designs always include a fresh and lively kick: a high-gloss, tangerine-hued ceiling, or a hallway papered in a cheeky print. In his first book, Jeffers presents twenty-five of his most stunning projects, divided into four sections: Collected Cool, captivating rooms that are thoughtfully layered, revealing themselves over time through myriad details; Bold Bespoke, interiors viewed through a sartorial lens, with custom elements essential to their unique style; Unabashed Glamour, rooms that make an instant impression, with their luxe finishes, sumptuous materials, and sparkle; and Casual Chic, comfortable but stylish spaces with a sense of ease from materials like linen and cotton. In each section, Jeffers shares his process and gives guidance and quick tips for recreating the look at home. Witty and exuberant, filled with details on process, colour, furniture, and accessories, Collected Cool will be an endless source of information and inspiration.

Puesto que la siguio durante toda su vida, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) debia apreciar la maxima de Socrates, el gran filosofo griego: "una vida sin examen no tiene objeto de vivirla para el hombre." En sus libros, en sus conferencias, incluso en sus conversaciones informales, Neutra reexaminaba constantemente no solo su propia vida, sino tambien la vida de los demas - presente y pasada - y el mundo, natural y humano, en que habitaban. En ningun otro lugar se hace esto mas patente que en "Vida y forma," su autobiografia publicada por primera vez en 1962, y que ahora, tras anos de estar descatalogada, ha vuelto felizmente a la vida.

A diferencia de "Disenar para sobrevivir" (1954), su magnifica coleccion de ensayos, profunda y filosofica, Neutra opta por otro enfoque en "Vida y forma," y adopta un acercamiento mas ligero y desenfadado. Parece como si Neutra, normalmente tan serio y vehemente, se diera aqui permiso para mostrar su ironico sentido del humor y para sondear determinadas areas de su experiencia personal que nunca antes habia examinado tan de cerca. Esto incluye recuerdos hasta ese momento no contados de sus padres y hermanos, de su infancia, y de su educacion en la Viena imperial, asi como de sus duras experiencias como oficial de la artilleria austriaca en la Primera Guerra Mundial y de los inicios de su conciencia arquitectonica en respuesta a las obras de Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Erich Mendelsohn, Louis Sullivan y Frank Lloyd Wright.

Al igual que las autobiografias de Sullivan y Wright, "Vida y forma" se concentra en los primeros anos de Neutra, tanto en Europa como en America. Como es natural relata en sus memorias los encargos mas conocidos como la Lovell Health House (1929), su propia Van der Leeuw Research House (1933) y la casa Von Sternberg, pero tambien se detiene en algunas construcciones mucho menos famosas como la pequena y casi ignorada casa Mosk (1933). "Vida y forma" tambien confirma la obsesion de Neutra con el paso del tiempo y su firme resolucion de no perderlo nunca.

Como Sullivan y Wright, Neutra evita escribir una cronica de los hechos, para proponer mas bien, a sus setenta anos, una meditacion sobre los aspectos de su vida y su trabajo que retrospectivamente le parecen mas interesantes y significantes. En vez de "incluirlo todo," prefiere presentar un relato honesto de la memoria de su vida. Al escribir mi propio libro "Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture" (Oxford University Press, 1982; Rizzoli Press, 2006), me base en "Vida y forma" siempre que necesite presentar las experiencias de Neutra con su autentica voz. Para las generaciones futuras de arquitectos, historiadores y lectores, es una gran noticia tener este libro disponible de nuevo.

- Thomas S. Hines, Profesor emerito de Histora y arquitectura, Universidad de California Los Angeles

Shivdatt Sharma (b. 1931) is one of the most prolific Indian modernist architects. Starting out as an architect in the Chandigarh Capital Project Team led by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Sharma subsequently became Chief Architect of the Indian Space Research Organisation. He then went into private practice. Sharmas architecture is a distinct blend of the core principles of Modernism, interpreted through the lens of contemporary Indian realities. Modernism was adopted as both symbol and instrument of nation-building in Nehruvian India. Working alongside designers and artists, architects went to work building innumerable small townships, universities, public institutions, housing estates and infrastructural projects across the country. Progressive businesses also patronized Modernism as full participants in the project of nation-building. The Modernism in India Series documents the extensive heritage of Modernism and modern architecture in India. Bringing to light the work of a forgotten generation, this series documents work that is currently under threat by the forces of globalization. This well-illustrated book documents Sharmas work from the early days, when it was a part of the experimental and innovative ethos of Chandigarh, to the present. He has designed for a range of public and private clients across the world. Along with a portfolio of selected works, this book includes critical essays, interviews and a chronology of projects.

UIRA e o projeto arquitetonico para uma Vila Olimpica orbital, a primeira do mundo, criada pelo arquiteto brasileiro Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta. Em 2011 Pimenta lancou o projeto de arquitetura Kairos - para um edificio em orbita da Terra, considerado o primeiro projeto de arquitetura para um edificio no espaco sideral. Ainda em 2011, Emanuel Pimenta criou e dirigiu o primeiro curso de arquitetura espacial do Brasil, e o segundo do mundo, na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Sao Paulo. No inicio dos anos 1980, Emanuel Pimenta cunhou o conceito de arquitetura virtual, e iniciando em 1980 ele projetou o primeiro planeta virtual do mundo - Woiksed - antecipando o Second Life em mais de vinte anos. O livro UIRA contem os primeiros estudos do projeto, cerca de sessenta ilustracoes e uma introducao escrita pelo arquiteto Bruno Padovano, da Universidade de Sao Paulo.

Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with underclass tattooing in an attempt to tell modern Europeans that they should know better. But the negation of ornament was supposed to reveal, not negate, good style; and an incorrigible ironist has been taken too literally in denying architecture as a fine art. Without normalizing his edgy radicality, Masheck argues that Loos's masterful "astylistic architecture" was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck has reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. Far from being the anti-architect of the modern era, Masheck's Loos is 'an unruly yet integrally canonical artist-architect'. He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy and advocated the evolution of artful architecture. This is a brilliantly written revisionist reading of a perennially popular architect.