Villanueva was born in London, he grew up and was educated in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and was acquainted with the contemporary artists of the Parisian Avant-garde. In 1929 he founded his own architectural office in Caracas, where he designed and realised many large buildings including the university campus in Caracas which consists of approximately 100 buildings; the lecture theatre with its curved white ceiling from which large colored tiles from Calder are suspended is particularly remarkable. In addition he designed the Olympic stadium and housing estates. Villanueva's architecture combines the radical style of Modernism with a dynamic and personal use of color and form. Concrete is much in evidence in his work and he lays great value on allowing the structural elements to become visible in expressive forms. In cooperation with Tanais Ediciones, Princeton Architectural Press and Logos Art.
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This book is a must have for latin american architects and architecture students. Includes great pictures to most of the relevant works of Carlos Raul Villanueva in Caracas and Maracay. The comment on every work is insightful. An excellent buy if you want to learn about modern architecture. It got only four stars because it was not hard cover.
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