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Asymptote
Archigram
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Peter Cook (Editor)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
"In late 1960, in various flats in Hampstead, a loose group of people started to meet: to criticize projects, to concoct letters to the press, to combine to make competition projects, and generally prop one another up against the boredom of working in a London architectural office. It became obvious that some publication would help. The main British magazines did not at that time publish student work, so that Archigram was reacting to this as well as the general sterility of the scene. The title came from a notion of a more urgent and simple item than a journal, like a 'telegram' or 'aerogramme,' hence 'archi(tecture)-gram.'...By this time Peter Cook, David Greene, and Mike Webb, in making a broadsheet, had started a new Group."?
Thus begins Archigram, a chronicle of the work of a group of young British architects that became the most influential architecture movement of the 1960s, as told by the members themselves. It includes material published in early issues of their journal, as well as numerous texts, poems, comics, photocollages, drawings, and fantastical architecture projects. Work presented includes Instant City, pod living, the Features Monte Carlo entertainment center, Blow-out Village, and the Cushicle personalized enclosure. Archigram's influence continues unabated: direct descendants of the group's work include Lebbeus Woods, Neil Denari, Takasaki Masaharu, ?and Morphosis.?
This title is a facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1972, with a new introduction by Michael Webb.
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Aulenti
Asymptote: Flux
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Lise Anne Couture (Author)
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Hani Rashid (Author)
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Phaidon Press (Editor)
Asymptote, an award-winning New York City-based architectural firm, expands the boundaries of traditional practice with work that ranges from buildings and urban design to computer-generated environments. Recognized internationally as both cutting-edge architects and virtual-reality artists, Asymptote partners Lise Anne Couture and Hani Rashid have designed and written the first book to document their 'real world' (as opposed to virtual) projects completed since 1995. It includes work as diverse as a trading floor for the New York Stock Exchange; a multimedia research park in Kyoto, Japan; a modular furniture system for Knoll; and a centre for art and technology for the Guggenheim Museum in Soho, New York. Rashid and Couture's work is intriguing because it draws inspiration from a wide range of sources not traditionally associated with architecture - among them the design of airline interiors, sporting equipment, and organic systems like seashells and honeycombs; and various means of communicating and disseminating information. Asymptote presents a seamless trajectory of projects organized in a non-linear fashion and illustrated with installation photographs, collaged photographs, and computer-generated diagrams and environments. The projects are interspersed with descriptive text and the speculative writing that Asymptote is known for. Both partners combine architectural practice with teaching, Rashid at Columbia University and Couture at Columbia and Parsons School of Design.
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Ban
Gae Aulenti
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Margherita Petranzan (Author)
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Rizzoli International Publications (Editor)
Gae Aulenti is one of the world's most prominent architects, and her prodigious output encompasses museum and theater design, industrial and exhibition design, furniture, graphics, urban planning, and architecture. This new publication illustrates Aulenti's complete oeuvre and includes the world-famous Musée d'Orsay, stage designs for theater and opera, a villa in St. Tropez, exhibition designs for the 2001 Milan Triennale, and the remodeling of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, among many other highly visible designs.
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Barragan
Shigeru Ban
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E Ambasz (Author)
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S Ban (Author)
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Emilio Amasz (Author)
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Shigeru Ban (Author)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
Shigeru Ban may be best known for his evocative Curtain Wall House in Tokyo?a highlight of the Museum of Modern Art's 1999 Un-Private House exhibit?but few know the range of this Japanese architect's work. In this first English-language monograph on Ban, 30 built projects reveal his inventiveness and humanitarianism. Ban's primary objectives in his work are the use of low cost materials and the dissolution of the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces. His paper tube designs, which he first created as emergency housing for victims of Rwanda's civil war, were later reconfigured for earthquake victims in Kobe and are currently incorporated in Ban's Japanese Pavilion at Hannover Expo 2000. Influenced by the Japanese tradition of linking the home with the surrounding environment, Ban has created buildings such as Hanegi Forest and Walls?less House that invite nature to coexist with design.
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Behrens
Barragan: The Complete Work
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Princeton Arch Staff (Author)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
Mexican architect Luis Barrag?n is one of this century's most?creative designers. Self-taught, he achieved international renown for his?remarkable personal artistic vision. Using vegetation, water, primary?geometric forms, and vivid colors, Barrag?n created a poetic and?painterly yet elegantly simple architectural style that transformed the?Mexican building tradition into an abstract architectural language. There?has been extraordinarily little published on Barrag?n, and this new?monograph is the only comprehensive compilation of his work-102 buildings?and 12 additional projects-many of which have never been published before.?Its intelligent analyses and sup erb illustrations demonstrate the?complexity and scope of this great designer, as both an architect and a?landscaper.??It presents not only Barrag?n's well-known later work, but also shows the?development of his oeuvre: from early projects, which incorporated?vernacular Mexican forms with Islamic elements, through a period clearly?influenced by the International Style and Le Corbusier, to a culmination?in the clean, colorful modernism for which Barrag?n is best known.? ?This new monograph collects over 400 illustrations: Barrag?n's drawings,?color and black-and-white photographs of his work, meticulously re-drawn?plans, elevations, and sections created especially for the book, and new?scale models of important projects. In addition, the monograph contains?many texts-a preface by Alvaro Siza, essays by Mexican architectural?critics Antonio Toca and J.M. Buendia, previously unpublished text by?Barrag?n himself, and an unabridged transcription of his Pritzker Prize?acceptance speech. An invaluable volume, Barrag?n: The Complete?Works also includes a detailed bibliography and comparative?international chronology. This book is the essential compendium of the?work of a master architect.
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Bellini
Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century
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Stanford Anderson (Author)
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The MIT Press (Editor)
Most histories of twentieth-century architecture cite Peter Behrens' influence on three of his protégés--Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier--and mention the turbine factory and arc lamp he designed for the German electrical firm AEG. Now Behrens' full contribution to the history of twentieth-century architecture is finally told, in Stanford Anderson's indispensable guide to one of the great designers of our century.
The author was first attracted to Behrens as one of the emblematic figures in the development of architectural modernism. Over the years, he has reflected critically on the growing body of Behrens scholarship that has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as on the views of such tastemakers as Philip Johnson, who rejected Behrens' AEG Turbine Factory, the signature icon of his early experiments in modernism, in favor of his later conservatively classical work. Anderson now assimilates decades of research into a definitive work that considers Behrens from the most nuanced perspective yet and that clarifies many problematic issues such as Behrens' endorsement of historical determinism and his work on Hitler's proposed monumental axis in Berlin.
The book looks at the cultural and architectural context in which Behrens worked, his early career, and the relation of his own house in Darmstadt to his ideal of a society where life is formed as art. It also looks at his directorship of the School of Arts and Crafts in Düsseldorf, where he drew on the work of such brilliant historiographers of art and architecture as Alois Riegl and August Schmarsow. In his conclusion, Anderson considers Behrens' melancholy in the face of modern industrial society and his avoidance of a direct address of life, despite, or rather because of, his professed commitment to express life as art.
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Botta
Mario Bellini: Architecture 19841995
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Ermanno Ranzani (Editor)
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Kurt W. Foster (Introduction)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
Mario Bellini has worked as an architect and designer for more?than twenty years. In 1987 he was honored with an exhibition at?the New York Museum of Modern Art, and his designs for Vitra and?Rosenthal have already become legendary. His architecture is inspired?by a special sense of detail and form. Bellini supplements his?design work with an intensive theoretical discussion and also?approaches the subject of architecture in his work as an exhibition?designer ? here, his widely praised presentation of renaissance?models from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo in Venice and Berlin?comes to mind.??This book documents the most important buildings, projects,?and exhibitions of Bellini and thus provides an overview of the?creative work of this internationally renowned architect.
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Breuer
Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics (Universe Architecture Series)
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Irena Sakellaridou (Author)
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Universe Publishing (Editor)
Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is the newest book in the Universe architecture series. This volume presents the work of the Swiss-born architect who worked as an assistant to such architecture giants as Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn before starting his own firm in 1970 and achieving international fame. Botta' characteristic respect for topographical conditions and regional sensibilities, his deft craftsmanship and the importance of geometric order in his work are evidenced in thirty projects that range from smaller residential buildings to such grandiose projects as the Church of San Giovanni Battista, the Jean Tinguely Museum and, most famously, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This detailed study also includes the designs he created for furniture and the stage. Mario Botta: Architectural Poetics is a thorough survey of the architectural and design work that launched Botta into the pantheon of modern architecture.
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Breuer
Marcel Breuer, Architect: The Career and the Buildings
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Isabelle Hyman (Author)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
During the course of an illustrious 50-year career that took him from the Bauhaus to London, Harvard University, and then New York, architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) generated a huge, influential, and remarkably varied body of work. Among his hundreds of buildings are such architectural triumphs as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. This is the first comprehensive study of Breuer's architectural oeuvre. To write it, architectural historian Isabelle Hyman utilized for the first time extensive unpublished archival material and collected hundreds of photographs, plans, and sketches. While Breuer has been best known for his tubular steel chairs and other furniture designs, this book makes clear why he received dozens of architectural honors and awards and was called "a monumental figure among modern architects."
295 illustrations, 35 in full color, 384 pages, 10 1/2 x 10 1/4"
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