Main entry:

Nettell, Michaela

Title & Author:

Less a building : interactions with the London Zoo Aviary

Publication:

London : Passengers, [2021]

Description:

viii, 130 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 19 cm

Notes:
"Less a building: Interactions with the London Zoo Aviary is a research project and publication by Michaela Nettell with: Marcela Aragüez, Tim Dee, Polly Gould, Alex Hartley, Julie F. Hill, Helen Jukes, Milena Michalski, Colin Priest, Ana Ruepp and Matthew Turner
Includes bibliographical references (page vi) and index
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material

Summary:

"Realised by Cedric Price, Lord Snowdon and Frank Newby in the mid-1960s, the landmark London Zoo Aviary is known for its pioneering tensile structure, its immersive and sensory qualities and its architectural paradoxes of permanence/plasticity, transparency/opacity and openness/enclosure. Less a building takes the hiatus of the aviary’s redevelopment in the early 2020s as an opportunity to consider the structure anew, exposing it as a powerful catalyst for experimental thinking and making"--Back cover

ISBN:

9781739914103
1739914104

Subject:

Price, Cedric.
London Zoo Aviary (London, England)
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310398
Call No.: 255459
Copy: 1
Status: Available