The Eye of the Architect

A leading Mexican architect's photographic panorama of the past century's greatest buildings

This beautifully designed volume offers an architect's portrait of modern and contemporary architecture. Through the lens of Alfonso Lopez Baz (born 1947), cofounder of the leading Mexican firm Grupo LBC Arquitectos, great buildings by some of the past century's finest architects are depicted with engaging and exquisite compositional drama. Lopez Baz's photographs are accompanied by phrases and thoughts from prominent architects that reflect on architecture and life. Featured architects include: Tadao Ando, Luis Barragan, Marcel Breuer, David Chipperfield, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Frederick P. Dinkelberg, Charles Eames, Anton Garcia-Abril, Frank Gehry, Giles Gilbert Scott, Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon, Herzog & De Meuron, Alberto Kalach, Kisho Kurokawa, Javier Garcia Lascurain, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Meier, Oscar Niemeyer, Enrique Norten, Jean Nouvel, Juan O'Gorman, Renzo Piano, Eero Saarinen, SANAA, Alvaro Siza, Kenzo Tange, TEN Arquitectos, Jose Villagran Garcia and Rafael Vinoly.