Main entry:

Borden, Gail Peter, author.

Title & Author:

New essentialism : material architecture / Gail Peter Borden.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Novato, California] : Applied Research + Design Publishing, and imprint of Oro Editions, Inc., [2018]

Description:

449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
[I.] Themes : Architecture is everything all at once / Michael Bell -- Contexts / Marlon Blackwell, Tanzil Shafique -- The material inquiry of construction / Lawrence Scarpa -- Quiet material / Tom Kundig -- Iterative forms / Carlos Jimenez -- Spirit of objects / Wendell Burnette -- Open tectonics / Wes Jones -- Figuration / Brian Delford Andrews -- [II.] Premise: new essentialism -- [III.] Thresholds and propositions: precedents and inquiries : Re-visioning typology : Systematized logic + abstract geometry: Temple of Artemis ; 20 propositions for suburban living -- Experience : Experience + material + form: Baths of Caracalla ; [x]perience mechanisms ; Spaceframes -- Formal inquiries into material logics : Structure + form: Chartres Cathedral ; Intensity frames -- Conditional application : Visual composition + geometry: Palazzo Rucellai ; Tower house -- Fabricating experience through material systems : Fabrication + assembly: Crystal Palace ; Light frames ; Density frames ; Furlined -- [IV.] Point, counterpoint: interview [with Gail Peter Borden] -- Selected additional works.

Summary:

New Essentialism: Material Architecture' examines how architecture engages material to create effect through five critical historical thresholds represented by analytical precedents coupled with projective experimental design project families. Unpacking the fundamental methodologies of their geometric, material, spatial, and effectual sensibilities, each threshold builds an examination that reveals the essential methods and processes of design, illustrating the basis for the argument for a 'New Essentialism': its characteristics, methods and the sensibilities that mark its definition.

ISBN:

9781939621801 hardcover
1939621801 hardcover

Subject:

Architectural design United States.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Design architectural États-Unis.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Modern.
United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299633
Call No.: BIB 245787
Status: Available