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Kahn
A Quincy Jones
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Cory Buckner (Author)
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Phaidon Press (Editor)
Archibald Quincy Jones (1913-79) was a Los Angeles-based architect and educator who shared the Case Study goal of reinventing the house as a way of redefining the way people lived in post-war America. A pioneer in 'greenbelt' planning and 'green' design, Jones raised the level of the tract house in California from the simple stucco box to a structure of beauty and logic surrounded by gardens and integrated into the landscape. He introduced new materials and also a new way of living within the built environment, and his work bridged the gap between custom-built and developer-built homes. The exquisite detailing and siting of Jones's houses, churches, civic and university buildings make them quintessential embodiments of mid-century American architecture. This is the first book published on Jones. It documents his full career, from his post-war planning projects to his long association with Palo Alto building magnate Joseph Eichler. The book is comprised of two parts: a substantial introductory essay tracing Jones's life and career, with a summary of key projects and his contributions to planning; and a catalogue of sixty of Jones's projects illustrated with high-quality black-and-white period photographs, and plans and renderings by Jones.
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Kesling
Louis I. Kahn (Studio Paperback)
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Birkhauser (Author)
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Birkhäuser (Editor)
1999 ist das Jahr des 25. Todestages von Louis Kahn. In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat das Entwerfen Louis Kahns eine herausragende Bedeutung für die internationale Architektur. Kahn gehört zur Generation der Architekten, die an der Vollendung und zugleich Überwindung der klassischen Moderne teilhatten.Er realisierte die meisten seiner Projekte in den USA und errichtete einige bedeutende Großprojekte in Asien. Von dem lange Zeit wenig beachteten Frühwerk Kahns, über Großprojekte wie das National Capital of Bangladesh in Dhakar bis hin zum Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth veranschaulichen die Werke die humanitäre Idee in der Architektur Kahns. Die vorliegende Monographie dokumentiert alle wichtigen Bauten und Projekte mit eigens für diesen Band angefertigten Planzeichnungen und unveröffentlichten Photographien, ergänzt durch das Material des Kahn-Archivs.
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Kiesler
Kesling Modern Structures: Popularizing Modern Living in Southern California 1934-1962
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Patrick Pascal (Author)
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David Gebhard (Introduction)
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Julius Shulman (Photographer)
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Balcony Press (Editor)
Practically unknown today, William Kesling and his design/build firm, Kesling Modern Structures, played a unique and important role in the development and acceptance of modern architecture in Southern California. For one year, beginning in November 1935, William Kesling was by far and away Los Angeles' most prolific and successful practitioner of Streamline Moderne design, breaking ground on more than twenty projects. His better-known peers, Schindler, Neutra, and other modernists could not so easily desert the principles of economy and austerity. The unschooled Kesling was not bound by such dogma but nevertheless was driven by the noble goal of bringing high quality modern design within reach of the everyday home-buying public. Today his houses and small apartment buildings are considered collector's items for L.A. cognoscenti and while many have been ruthlessly remodeled many others are being carefully restored to their original elegance. Kesling was one of Julius Shulman's first clients. These never-before-published images were taken with Shulman's first vest-pocket camera.
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Koolhaas
Friedrich Kiesler: Endless House 1947-1961
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Harold Krejei (Author)
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Valentina Sonzogni (Author)
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Friedrich Kiesler (Contributor)
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Dieter Bogner (Editor)
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Hatje Cantz Publishers (Editor)
Friedrich Kiesler was an architect, artist, designer, set designer and theoretician. His was the vision of a radically new concept for the interior: the idea of a polydimensional living space, an organically shaped continuum blending colors, forms and light with magical-mythical ideas to create an individual microcosm. Begun in the 1930s, his biomorphic design for an Endless House was based on this vision. It was to serve as his life-long dream and, though never realized, it nevertheless exerted a greater influence on architects and artists than have many of the built buildings of the 20th century. One of the many merits of Kiesler's architectural concept for the Endless House is that it wedded profound artistic exploration to different academic disciplines such as psychology, the natural sciences, the social sciences and the arts. With respect to its demands on living space, Kiesler's approach to design set the standards to which today's ubiquitous "bubble architecture" must measure up.
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Koolhaas
OMA@work 1972-2000
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Rem Koolhaas (Author)
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Japan Architect (Editor)
Founded by Rem Koolhaas in the 1970s OMA is today one of the leading architectural firms in the world. Fame came early, when in 1978 OMA won first prize in a competition for the extension of the Dutch parliament. A great many awards followed including Prize for Intensive Space Use awarded by the Dutch Government and the Architectural Institute of Japan's Award for the Best Building in Japan, Nexus World Housing. OMA is very active in the United States, working on projects as diverse as the new Seattle public Library and the McCormick Tribune Campus Center in Chicago. OMA acts as consultant in redefining the corporate identity of the client in the context of the architectural process. Works featured range from private residences to large scale urban planning and include the extension of the MoMA, New York; MAB-Tower, Rotterdam; Casa da Musica, Portugal; TGB (Very Big Library), Paris. Essay by Rem Koolhaas titled 'Junkspace'.
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Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 30)
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Rem Koolhaas (Author)
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Sanford Kwinter (Editor)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
This book presents a recent lecture and seminar given by architect Rem Koolhaas at the Rice University School of Architecture. In this compact volume, Koolhaas addresses the urban and architectural implications of extra-large construction, using as examples three of OMA's important large-scale projects: the Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal in Belgium, the Tres Grande Bibliotheque in Paris, and the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media Technology in Germany.Tackling questions about the difficult state of urbanism and modernism in contemporary Europe, America, and Asia, this slim volume forms a concise and coherent explanation of the theories and polemics of Koolhaas and OMA. This beautifully designed book serves as an inexpensive alternative and companion to Koolhaas's recent S,M,L,XL .
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Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas: Oma (Archipockets)
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Aurora Cuito (Author)
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Te Neues Publishing Company (Editor)
Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam,1944) studied architecture at the AA in London--where he went on to become a lecturer--and at the IAUS in New York, during Peter Eisenman's time there. Koolhaas has always been connected with the theory of architecture, as lecturer at the innovative AA, as a speaker, and with his published work: Delirious New York, a retrospective manifesto for Manhattan (1978) and the recent S, M, L, XL (1995). In 1972 Koolhaas set up the OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), whose name clearly expresses the planning intentions of the team, comprising Koolhaas, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis, and Madelon Vriessendorp.
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Lautner
S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large
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Rem Koolhaas (Author)
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Bruce Mau (Author)
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Jennifer Sigler (Editor)
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Hans Werlemann (Photographer)
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Monacelli (Editor)
This extraordinary, massive, and mind-boggling 1,300-page book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city--and complex illustration--with work produced by Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This almost overwhelming accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today--its splendors and miseries--exploring and revealing the corrosive effects of politics, context, the economy, and globalization. In some ways, this is the "Medium is the Message" of 1990s architectural discourse: guaranteed to be hugely influential in the coming decades, but grossly misunderstood by those who have not read it. The core arguments it makes about metropolitan architecture--accepting complexity and lack of centralized control--are similar to those of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. Very highly recommended.
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Lautner
John Lautner (Big Series)
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Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange (Author)
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Peter Gossel (Editor)
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Taschen (Editor)
John Lautner learned architecture through hands-on-working experience rather than through classic academic training. He wanted ongoing change and passionate devotion. In 1933 he joined Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West. Later, with his own office in Los Angeles, he became the only one of Wright's pupils who not only adopted the master's ideas but developed them further. For 50 years Lautner experimented with new methods of construction and with inventive formal departures, and of his 188 designs no fewer than 113 were built, most of them private houses. The sheer daring of these designs stunned his contemporaries, and remains stunning now. Many of his buildings, such as the celebrated Chemosphere, a home positioned atop a single concrete column built above Los Angeles in 1960, came to be seen as the symbols of a new architecture of limitless possibilities.
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