Main entry:

Werner, Frank, 1944-

Title & Author:

Covering + exposing : the architecture of Coop Himmelb(l)au / Frank Werner ; [translation, Michael Robinson].

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 2000.

Description:

206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Pt.1] Against the idleness of inert bodies or handling the "city in pieces" -- Back to the roots -- Making the city one's own -- Urban polemics -- The city of interactive vectors -- Effects: Criticizing criticism -- [Pt.2] Mass and transparency, construction and removing boundaries: A laboratory report -- Mind-expanding and media projects -- Pneumatic projects -- Form-mutation projects -- "Operations on the box" -- Renaissance of the clouds? -- [Pt.3] Portfolio 1968-2003 -- [Pt.4] Inner worlds: Motion space, mind space -- The built drawing -- Brainstorming -- The liberated labyrinth -- [Pt.5] The project as process: The long road from image to object -- Projecting the project -- Mental mapping -- Design bodies -- Drawing narrated into the model -- A special case: The blow-up procedure -- Controlled collisions -- [Pt.6] Mind spaces and their theoretical structures -- Himmelb(l)au within limits -- The international theory trap -- Thinking beyond built work -- The theory of "smooth" space -- Notes -- Short biographies -- Index.

ISBN:

3764360798 (English edition ; cl.)
9783764360795 (English edition ; cl.)

Subject:

Coop Himmelblau.
Group work in architecture Austria.
Architecture Austria History 20th century.
Architectural firms Austria.
Architecture Austria 20th century.
Architecture Travail en équipe Autriche.
Architecture Autriche 20e siècle.
Agences d'architecture Autriche.
Architecture Autriche Histoire 20e siècle.
Architectural firms
Architecture
Group work in architecture
Gebouwen.
Bouwprojecten.
Architectenbureaus.
Austria

Form/genre:

Quotations (texts)
History

Added entries:

Coop Himmelblau.

Covering and exposing the architecture of Coop Himmelblau
Architecture of Coop Himmelb(l)au

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214992
Call No.: NA44.C776.9 W4 2000
Status: Available