Main entry:

Reiter, Wellington, 1957-

Title & Author:

Vessels and fields / Wellington Reiter ; foreword by Patricia Phillips.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.

Description:

188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Patricia Phillips -- Introduction / Wellington Reiter -- Vessels : Vessel of destruction ; Vessel of time ; Vessel of light ; Vessel of memory -- Apparatus : Paper cylinder ; Balltower ; Bridgeboat ; Light spheres ; Tripods ; Paint machine -- Clocks : MIllennial time ; Flight time ; Pantheonic time -- Islands : Island of inequity ; Islands of time ; Islands of disregard -- Noah's Ark : Visible cities: the city as vessel ; Vessel of animals and birds ; Vessel of the world ; Vessel of man-made objects ; Vessel of memory -- Fields : Gettysburg ; Mississippi -- Habitable vessels : Maison Vuitton ; Thin house ; House within a house ; Subdivision of surveillance -- Bridges : Bridge pool ; Northern Avenue boat bridge ; Northern Avenue footbridge and millennial monument ; Bridging history ; Bridge house -- Urban Instruments 1 : Wall ; Gate ; Bridge ; Tower ; Monument -- Urban Instruments 2 : Urban acupuncture.

Summary:

"Vessels & Fields is a collection of Wellington Reiter's experimental projects, presented through a series of powerful drawings that owe as much to Lebbeus Woods for their frenetic and intense energy as they do to Piranesi for their ability to use simple pen-and-ink linework to create unusually complex spaces."--BOOK JACKET. "Just a few of the more than 20 projects included in this collection are the excavation of a defunct missile silo to allow for public viewing; two giant cones serving as timepieces, one measuring the growth of a tree and the other the erosion of a boulder; and a bridge between two islands on either side of the International Date Line that eventually becomes a meeting point between two distinct political ideologies."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568981872
9781568981871

Subject:

Reiter, Wellington, 1957-
Architecture and society.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architecture Aspect social.

Added entries:

Phillips, Patricia, 1952-

Vessels & fields

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201469
Call No.: NA44.R379.9 V4 1999
Status: Available