Agustín Hernández : praxis / texts by Tezontle Studio & Luis Orozco Madero, Enrique Giner de los Ríos, and Carlota Pérez-Jofre; photography by Ryan Lowry.

Main entry:

Hernández, Agustín, 1924- architect.

Title & Author:

Agustín Hernández : praxis / texts by Tezontle Studio & Luis Orozco Madero, Enrique Giner de los Ríos, and Carlota Pérez-Jofre; photography by Ryan Lowry.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Barcelona, Spain : Apartamento Publishing S.L., 2020.

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary:

Praxis, Agustín Hernández' is the fourth book in a series devoted to some of our favourite architects, the houses they build, and the stories behind them.0Born in 1924, Agusti?n Herna?ndez came of age as an architect in Mexico as modernist ideas coalesced with a renewed pride in the country?s past. He was a frontrunner in combining the symbols, myths, and urban planning principles of pre-Columbian civilisations to create imposing architectural monuments that even today retain their avant-garde nature?from the military academy he built as a modern-day Mayan ceremonial ground to the remote meditation centre commissioned by his sister, based on the symbolism of the snake, and the studio-home that he built for himself in 1975: Praxis, a geometric treehouse that still towers over the Bosques de las Lomas neighbourhood of Mexico City. Original photography by Ryan Lowry.

ISBN:

9788409182671
840918267X

Subject:

Hernández, Agustín, 1924- Catalogs.

Form/genre:

Catalogs

Added entries:

Orozco Madero, Luis, writer of added commentary.
Pérez-Jofre, Carlota, writer of added commentary.
Ríos, Enrique Giner de los, writer of added commentary.
Lowry, Ryan, photographer.
Tezontle Studio, writer of added commentary.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309341
Call No.: BIB 254605
Status: Available

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