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A monograph devoted to the celebrated international architect and designer, known for his otherworldly designs that skillfully unite architecture and landscape. A deviser of innovative systems and setter of cultural trends, Emilio Ambasz reinvents the universe by creating urban complexes that rise like volcanoes of glass, works of architecture that are natural landscapes and gardens that turn into artificial mechanisms of the city, in a range of spatial and urbanistic proposals of absolute originality.The monograph documents the creative world of this Argentine-born-American-based architect-designer from the crystalline complex of the San Antonio Botanical Center in Texas (1982) to the transparent container (Aqua Dove Mineral Water Bottle, 1987) and the opaque and granite office tower in Phoenix (1998), and focuses on his more recent works. Emilio Ambasz, born in 1943 in Argentina, studied at Princeton University. He completed the undergraduate program in one year and earned a Master"s Degree in Architecture from the same institution the next year. He served as Curator of Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1970-76), where he directed and installed numerous influential exhibits on architecture and industrial design. He is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in architecture and design.