Museums have become the pre-eminent building type for the expression of new architectural ideas. Holl's expansion of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art achieves a fusion of architecture with landscape that redefines the boundaries of the museum-going experience while creating one of the most unorthodox and breathtakingly beautiful examples of recent ...
The exhibition "Light Construction," held at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1995, maintains a lasting influence on contemporary architecture. Architects represented in the show, such as Steven Holl and Toyo Ito, continue to win prestigious commissions. Others, such as Herzog and de Meuron and Frank Gehry, have risen to celebrity status with ...
Design methods and practice in landscape architecture form the focus of this book, complemented by an analysis of the theoretical aspects of the subject. It spans the breadth of landscape design from post-ecological utopia to urban pragmatism.
"Source Books in Architecture" is a new series focusing on new single works by significant architects. Sponsored by Ohio State University, the series reveals the architectural motivations and techniques behind each building. The Source Books document each work with sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs at a level of ...
"Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School" presents a detailed story of the design and construction of a single building, Diamond Ranch High School by avant-garde California architecture firm Morphosis. The volume opens with an interview with Thom Mayne, founder and principal of Morphosis and winner of the 2005 Pritzker Prize. The interview outlines ...
This collected correspondence between architect Peter Eisenman and philosopher Jacques Derrida was originally meant to be part of an artistic project for architect Bernard Tschumi's Parc de la Villette in Paris, France.
A prominent practitioner, an influential theorist, and an esteemed educator, the architect Peter Eisenman today stands at the centre of architectural discourse and debate, as he has for some forty years. This book, a companion volume to "Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963-1988", gathers a generous selection of his later writings. In ...
Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. Drawing on his own experience as a working architect, he examines the ways in which the tools available to the ...
Perfect Acts of Architecture presents six sets of highly inventive drawings by the contemporary avant-garde architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, and Thom Mayne. Created between 1972 and 1988, when many architects turned to teaching because economic conditions had drastically curtailed ...
Created by the people at The Designers Republic, one of today's most revered design firms, 3D-2D/Designers Republic explores new ways of communicating architecture. By recreating a three-dimensional building in the form of a printed publication, this innovative book attempts to expand and open up new approaches to presenting and experiencing ...
The authors of these original essays - emerging architectural and cultural critics and practitioners - are engaged in the act of writing back at architecture, heralding the prospect of new conditions, possibilities, and purposes of practice.
Would you dash headlong into deadly danger to find a possibly non-existent mystical tome at the direction of an incarcerated lunatic, to save a man you saw die, just because the lunatic is your boyfriend? Well, if you're Miss Phoebe Katonic, and the lunatic is Dano K. Dath, and you'll have a heroic squirrel at your side and a robot army at your ...
The first collection of writing about one of the most famous American houses to be built in the 20th century. This fascinating guidebook to a house that many have studied but few have seen is also an exciting and important architectural document. Photos and line drawings throughout.
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