Title & Author:

Monolithic architecture / [editors] Rodolfo Machado and Rodolphe el-Khoury ; with essays by Detlef Mertins [and others].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©1995.

Description:

173 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
"First published on the occasion of the exhibition Monolithic architecture, held at the Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 30 September 1995--11 February 1996"--Title page verso
Published in the occasion of an exhibition held at the Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Sept. 30, 1995-Feb. 11, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references.
Monolithic architecture / Rodolfo Machado and Rodolphe el-Khoury -- Moving solids / Paulette Singley -- Open contours and other autonomies / Detlef Mertins -- In search of auro / Wilfried Wang -- Computed monoliths / Spiro N. Pollalis -- The projects / written by Mark Pasnik.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Looking closely at several buildings in Europe, Japan and America, this book sets out to define monolithic architecture in its larger context, searching for its physical and conceptual roots in earlier times and proposing reasons why such structures provoke emphatic public response.

ISBN:

3791316095
9783791316093 (hbk.)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture, Modern
Bouwkunst.
Gevels.
Postmodernisme.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural models.
Architectural drawing 20th century.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Machado, Rodolfo, 1942-
El-Khoury, Rodolphe.
Mertins, Detlef.
Heinz Architectural Center.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86249
Call No.: ID NA680.M6; ID:95-B3933
Status: Available