Main entry:

Bunge, Eric, author.

Title & Author:

Buildings and almost buildings : nARCHITECTS / Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang.

Publication:

New York, NY : Actar, 2018.
©2018

Description:

395 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Essays : The almost building -- Incomplete -- Incomplete: boundaries -- Incomplete: zones -- Ambiguity in the almost building -- Ambiguity: formal, temporal -- Ambiguity: typological -- Typological ambiguity: the almost building in the city
Projects : ABC Department Store facades, Beirut -- A/D/O, Brooklyn -- Art Basel Miami Beach -- Artisan house, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong -- Butterfly, Merriweather Park, Columbia, Maryland -- Canopy, MoMA PS1, Queens, New York -- Carmel Place, New York -- Double-ex house prototype -- Endless Table, New York -- Forest Pavilion, Da Nong Da Fu Forest Park, Hualien, Taiwan -- Hotel Pro Forma, Ørestad, Compenhagen -- Key Party, New York -- Living steel housing, Wuhan, China -- M2 mixed-use building, East Village, Calgary -- Navy Pier, Chicago -- New Aqueous City, MoMA Rising Currents, New York -- NYC DOT Harper Street Yard, New York -- NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center, Auburn, New York -- Open Porch, Detroit Riveryards -- Party wall, New York -- Pocket fence, Hong Kong, Shenzhen Biennale -- Polycentric Pavilion, Milan Design Triennale -- Shanghai Library East Hall (Library as Home), Shanghai -- Switch building, New York -- Villa-Villa, Ordos 100, Ordos, Inner Mongolia -- Waterfront Seattle Urban Kaleidoscopes, Seattle -- Windshape, Lacoste, France -- Wyckoff House Museum, Brooklyn.

Summary:

Buildings and Almost Buildings' explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project? an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open- ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture. Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Buildings and Almost Buildings explores the work of nARCHITECTS as a single project? an anti-monograph with a subtle manifesto about the open- ended, incomplete, and ambiguous in architecture. Structured around a variety of modes of representation specially prepared for the book, it reveals the ways in which the celebrated New York office led by Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang addresses contemporary issues of a world in flux. Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, nARCHITECTS argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived.

ISBN:

9781948765084 (pbk.)
194876508X (pbk.)

Subject:

NARCHITECTS (Firm)
nARCHITECTS (Firm)
Architects United States.
Architectural firms New York (State) New York.
Architecture United States Pictorial works.
Architectes États-Unis.
Agences d'architecture New York (État) New York.
Architecture États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Architects.
Architectural firms.
Architecture.
Architecture United States History 21st century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
New York (State) New York.
United States.

Form/genre:

Catalog
illustrated books.
catalogs (documents)
Illustrated works.
Catalogs.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Hoang, Mimi, author.
Hoang, Mimi author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305408
Call No.: BIB 251232
Status: Available