Main entry:

Prestinenza Puglisi, Luigi, 1956-

Title & Author:

New directions in contemporary architecture : evolutions and revolutions in building design since 1988 / Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi.

Publication:

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], 2008.

Description:

240 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
1. After Deconstructivism: 1988-92 : Precedents ; Deconstructivist architecture ; A new paradigm ; Zaha and the game of opposites ; Rem Koolhaas: method and its paradoxes ; Frank O. Gehry: new compositions ; Disjunction and dis-location ; Between gesture and perception: Fuksas and Holl ; The minimalist approach: Herzog & de Meuron ; Minimalism in England, France and Japan ; The development of high tech ; Post-modernism and modernism continued ; The inheritance of deconstructivism -- 2. New directions: 1993-7 : The turning point ; Explosive buildings ; Los Angeles, Graz and Barcelona ; The radicals and Coop Himmelb(l)au ; Nouvel: beyond transparency ; Herzog & de Meuron and the skin of the building ; Minimalism ; Questions of perception ; Koolhaas: Eurelille ; The poetics o the electronic: between the blob and the metaphor ; Eco-tech ; Renzo Piano's soft-tech ; PAYS-BAS_perspectives ; Pro and versus a new architecture ; MoMA extension ; The beginnings of a new season -- 3. A season of masterpieces: 1998-2001 : The Guggenheim in Bilbao by Frank O Gehry ; The house in Floriac by Rem Koolhaas ; The Jewish Museum on Berlin by Daniel Libeskind ; The KKL in Lucerne by Jean Nouvel ; The un-private house ; The Möbius house ; A Dutchness in the state of architecture ; New landscapes, new languages ; New landscape: the west and east coast ; A new avant-garde ; Landscapes or aesthetic objects? ; Aesthetics, ethics and mutations ; The Eleventh of September, Two Thousand and One ; Starting over -- 4. Trends: 2002-7 : The World Trade Center ; Clouds and monoliths ; The star system ; The crisis of the star system ; The crisis of architectural criticism ; The end of the star system? ; Ten projects ; Super-creativity and ultra-minimalism ; Back to basics ; The next stop -- Timeline.

Summary:

"This book is a much needed navigation guide for anyone interested in modern architecture. Organised chronologically, it enables you to find your way through one of the most prolific periods of building design. It looks at buildings in often contrasting styles that have been built almost simultaneously across the world with their roots in very different tendencies and schools of thought. A loose but effective framework is provided, which pulls all these multiple threads together, while key buildings are described individually with a unique clarity and precision."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780470518908 (pbk.)
0470518901 (pbk.)
9780470518892
0470518898

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture, Modern.
Design architectural.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Arkitektur historia 1900-talet.
Arkitektur historia 2000-talet.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291079
Call No.: BIB 234397
Status: Available