One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms, even as it has garnered high-profile, big-budget commissions from around the world. Since Rizzoli published Volume I ...
Winners of numerous awards and the subject of exhibitions from Tokyo to Berlin, Morphosis is one of the most influential American architecture firms of the last two decades. Rizzoli has published the firm's highly successful first two monographs; like its predecessors, Morphosis: Buildings and Projects, Volume 3 reflects the firm's avant-garde ...
Thom Mayne, the founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Morphosis, is one of the most influential architects of his generation practising today and is considered part of an informal "Los Angeles School" of cutting-edge architects mentored by Frank Gehry and which also includes Eric Owen Moss and the late Franklin D. Israel. After ...
Independently and through prestigious commissions, photographer Jenny Okun has traveled the world for more than twenty-five years creating dazzling, multi-layered interpretations of buildings by Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Richard Rodgers, and many other renowned architects. Commissions have included the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Tate Modern; and ...
Peter Pran is often acclaimed as one of the world's most innovative and creative architects. This Norwegian-American has won fifteen national and international design competitions, two AIA design honour awards, including the 2004 design honour award for the Telenor Headquarters, twelve New York design awards and two American design awards. He has ...
Andre Poitiers' adventures in design involve experimentation, pushing himself to the limits of what is known. He acquired expertise in the studio of Norman Foster, before invading the territory of architecture, driven by a futuristic, iconoclastic impetus. The most recent milestone on Poitiers journey is Plasma, the liquid, organic and living ...
One of the few truly visionary architects of large-scale commissions working today, Thom Mayne won the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his field's most prestigious award. Mayne's influential firm Morphosis, founded in the early 1970s, has maintained an avant-garde presence among contemporary architecture firms even as it has garnered high ...
"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 ...
Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installations of paintings, sculpture, and digital projections, Matthew Ritchie's work investigates architecture and the dynamics of culture. Named by Time magazine in 2001 as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, his rich work draws from subjects as diverse as ancient myth and medieval alchemy ...
Gunther Domenig zahlt zu den bedeutendsten Architekten Europas. Die ungewohnliche Vielfalt seiner Bauaufgaben reicht von Krankenhausern uber Hotels, Burobauten und Gewerbeobjekte bis hin zu Interventionen in alten Strukturen. Das Buch bietet mit Prasentationen des Dokumentationszentrums am Reichsparteitagsgelande in Nurnberg sowie von Domenigs ...
With writings by Thom Mayne, this monograph illustrates a selection of projects - many presented for the first time - from this LA based group whose work stands as a response to the context and diversity of the urban environment. The book gives an insight into the work of this firm, covering the earlier works, such as the Venice III houses to the ...
Los Angeles faces rapid, continuous growth in the new century. Even though today's vital infrastructure and systems are pushed beyond capacity, the greater metropolis will receive an additional two million people by 2005. To prepare for this tremendous growth, the city must reconsider its planning strategies as well as the revitalization of the ...
With writings by Thom Mayne, this monograph illustrates a selection of projects - many presented for the first time - from this LA based group whose work stands as a response to the context and diversity of the urban environment. The book gives an insight into the work of this firm, covering the earlier works, such as the Venice III houses to the ...
Featuring the results of the design initiative, this text gives details of the seven architectural proposals put forward to meet the future needs of downtown Los Angeles - as well as a record of the critical process. It presents a full set of computer renderings and project descriptions for each of the proposals, with excerpts and photographs from ...
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