The Elements of Modern Architecture author-al-maccuish Spain’s national art museum

Spain’s national art museum

architects

the rich Mediterranean cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome

Renaissance villas and Baroque churches

matings and the ways they breed

The Elements of Modern Architecture author-al-maccuish Spain’s national art museumThis ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents, and ranging from a 1955 residence in India to a 2015 opera house in China, influential buildings of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed consideration of their key characteristics