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Pei
Lorcan O'Herlihy (Contemporary World Architects)
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Oscar Riera Ojeda (Author)
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Anthony Vidler (Foreword)
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Rockport Publishers (Editor)
In the work of Lorcan O'Herlihy, a significant emerging voice in this new generation, the faith in modernist reticence, in abstraction, in "white" architecture, is mediated through a contemporary sense of inventiveness in the use of materials, traditional and new, and a profound understanding of context, its landforms, vegetation, and above all, light. Taking his cue from the spatial organizations of Loos, Schindler, and Neutra, O'Herlihy deploys his intersecting volumes to take advantage of the often panoramic views, floods of light, and dramatic sites he occupies. If the West Coast equivalent of modernism's "Mediterranean" is the simple stucco cube, then O'Herlihy echoes its traditional play of wood and plaster in a combination that exploits "the new woods" and their golden, light distributing surfaces.
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Pei
Conversations With I. M. Pei: Light Is the Key (Architecture)
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Gero Von Boehm (Author)
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I. M. Pei (Author)
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Prestel Publishing (Editor)
The Chinese-born American architect Ioeh Ming Pei is one of the most prolific architects of our times. Best known for such as the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and his controversial and critically acclaimed Grand Louvre glass pyramid in Paris (1983-89), his architectural oeuvre is characterized by the importance of light. In a series of intimate interviews with filmmaker Gero von Boehm, this volume explores the origins, ideas, and motives behind Pei's work.
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Pei
I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture (Revised Edition)
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Carter Wiseman (Author)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
"Beautifully illustrated . . . handsomely produced . . . highly informative."
-Choice I. M. Pei has designed some of the world's most elegant and powerful buildings. The revised edition of Abrams' 1990 book features a new chapter that covers Pei's work between 1990 and 2001-a flurry of creativity that included commissions for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the final phases of work on the Louvre, and museums in Luxembourg, Germany, and Japan. Dozens of color photographs present Pei's buildings in all their splendid variety, while scores of revealing drawings, plans, and models, as well as personal and documentary photographs, make this the only comprehensive record of the work of an architectural giant, one who has won every important honor in his field.
356 illustrations, 65 in full color, 42 line drawings, 340 pages, 83/4 x 11"
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Pelli
I.M. Pei
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aileen Reid (Author)
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Knickerbocker Press (Editor)
Famed architect, I. M. Pei first came to international prominence with the commission for the Kennedy Library. His subsequent success, with projects such as the glass pyramid at the Louvre and the new wing of the National Gallery in Washington, DC are well-documented herein with wonderful photography and text. A quiet master who has had a resounding effect on world architectural style.
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Piano
Cesar Pelli: Buildings and Projects 1988-1998
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Michael J. Crosbie (Author)
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Birkhauser (Editor)
Cesar Pelli, born in 1926 in Argentina, heads one of the most renowned architectural practices in North America. Known for his sleek, elegant glazing envelopes, he achieved virtually universal fame in 1997 by designing the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. He is active all over the world, with projects in Latin America, the USA, Asia and Europe. This book presents 21 selected buildings which are documented in detail and with plans reproduced to scale. Among the projects presented are the Petronas Towers, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Washington National Airport, Edificio República in Buenos Aires, NTT Headquarters in Tokyo and Zürich Tower in Den Haag. Author Michael Crosbie is an architect and architectural critic. He has written extensively on architecture and urban design and teaches at Roger Williams University.
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Piano
Renzo Piano (Archipockets)
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Cristina Montes (Author)
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Aurora Cuito (Editor)
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Te Neues Publishing Company (Editor)
Renzo Piano (Genoa, 1937) studied architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan. Since winning the competition to design the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1971) along with Richard Rogers, Piano has become a prominent figure on the international architectural scene, with more works constructed outside Italy than in his own country. Piano brings a similar approach to both the small and the large scale. He has directed projects of very varying sizes: small buildings like the travelling IBN Pavilion and the Brancusi Museum; and great megastructures like Kansai's International Airport Terminal built on a man-made island in the Bay of Tokyo, and the remodeling of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz where work is scheduled to be completed in 2002.
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Prouvé
Renzo Piano Building Workshop - Volume 3 (Renzo Piano Building Workshop)
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Peter Buchanan (Author)
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Phaidon Press (Editor)
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Prouvé
Jean Prouve Complete Works- Volume 1: 1917-1933
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Peter Sulzer (Author)
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Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier (Photographer)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was one of the most outstanding design engineers of the 20th century. His work is a remarkable combination of creative imagination, technical skill and visionary enterprise. The first of Birkhäuser's 4-volume edition of Prouvé's Complete Works covers the period between 1917 and 1933 including the first metalwork objects (staircase railings, lamps), the first standardised building products (windows, doors, movable partitions), the first furniture in moulded steel and the first building projects to use folded sheet metal, such as operating theatres in Lyon's Hôpital Grange Blanche, as well as the text of numerous conversations with Jean Prouvé. "Peter Sulzer's work is an admirable catalogue raisonné of the works of Jean Prouvé... He has made a remarkable synthesis from a variety of sources, rigorously organised on the page and easily readable" (commendation on the award of the French Briey Prize for an architectural book).
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Rogers
Jean Prouvé - Oeuvre complète / Complete Works: Volume 2: 1934-1944 (Jean Prouve: Complete Works)
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Peter Sulzer (Author)
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Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier (Photographer)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was one of the most renowned design engineers of the 20th century. This volume, the second in Birkhäuser's 4-volume edition of Prouvé's Complete Works, covers the period between 1934 and 1944, including such significant works as the "semi-metal" Chair no. 4 and its variations, which went into serial production from 1935 onwards, office furniture for the Parisian Electricity Supply Works and seating for the lecture hall of the École des sciences politiques in Paris. In 1934 Prouvé's workshop commenced production of entirely pre-fabricated sheet metal buildings such as the Flying Club at Buc. One of the triumphs of this period is the Maison du Peuple communal hall in Clichy, an outstanding monument of functionalism and a "hymn to metal and folded sheet". This volume also includes texts of previously unpublished conversations with Prouvé about the Flying Club and Maison du Peuple.
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