Title & Author:

The force is in the mind : the making of architecture / [editor] Elke Krasny.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2008.

Description:

188 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
" ... published to accompany the exhibition "Architektur beginnt im Kopf. The making of architecture" Oct 16, 2008 to Feb. 02, 2009 at the Architekturzentrum Wien"--Title page verso.
Architectural fieldwork: twenty studio visits -- Alvar Aalto -- Lina Bo Bardi -- Atelier Bow-Wow -- Hermann Czech -- Diller Scorfidio + Renfro -- Edge Design Institute -- Yona Friedman -- Antoni Gaudí -- Lux Guyer -- Steven Holl Architects -- Jerde Partnership -- Lacaton & Vassal -- Rudolf Oligiati -- Charlotte Perriand -- R & Sie (N) -- Theiss & Jaksch / Schwalm-Theiss -- Karl Schwanzer -- SOM Skidmore, Owings & Merrill -- UNStudio -- Venturi Scott Brown & Associates -- Snapshots -- Tool Stories -- Means and the end -- Little lexicon of tools -- Sketch -- Pencil, tracing paper & SketchUp -- Plan -- Drawing pens, razor blades & CAD -- Compass, stencil & indy -- Set-square, T-square & VectorWorks -- Pantograph, print machine & photocopier -- Paper, letraset. & airbrush -- Model -- Stanley knife, glue & 3D plotter -- 3D modeling, Bézier curves & render engines.

Summary:

"While in one Parisian architects' studio shots are fired at clay blocks, in another orchids are raised. In Zurich an architect reclined on her bed with a wooden setsquare in her hand, in Hong Kong thinking is done with pieces of Lego." "How do architects work this side of the legendary sketches on paper napkins and the ubiquitous monitors? Are the spaces in their studios and offices a kind of visiting card for different approaches and ways of working? What roles do the collective tools of a particular era play in the individual design act?" "Using photographs, texts, models, sketches and inspiration objects this book documents an international architectural field research project and shows how different architects use their tools and indeed even invent "their own" sets of instruments to spark their creative processes."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9783764389802
376438980X

Subject:

Architecture Pictorial works.
Architecture Exhibitions.
Architecture History Pictorial works.
Architecture History Exhibitions.
Architects Pictorial works.
Architects Exhibitions.
Architecture Expositions.
Architecture Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture Histoire Expositions.
Architectes Ouvrages illustrés.
Architectes Expositions.
Architects
Architecture
Architektur Ausstellung Wien <2008>

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Krasny, Elke, 1965-
Architektur Zentrum Wien.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260141
Call No.: BIB 191037
Status: Available