Title & Author:

Minimal architecture / Ilka & Andreas Ruby [and others].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, ©2003.

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 29 cm.

Series:

Architecture in focus

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173).
Minimalism and minimal art / Philip Ursprung -- Essential, meta-, trans-: The Chimeras of minimalist architecture / Ilka & Andreas Ruby -- Projects I: Essential minimalism -- [1] Tadao Ando -- Azuma House -- Church of the Light -- Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts -- [2] Herzog & de Meuron I -- Ricola Storage Building -- Goetz Collection -- [3] Gigon/Guyer -- Extension of the Winterthur -- Museum of Art -- Switching Station -- [4] Adolf Krischanitz -- Neue Welt School -- Kunsthalle II: project space -- [5] Morger & Degelo -- Standardised buildings for railway technology -- Liechtenstein Art Museum -- [6] Diener & Diener -- Migros Shopping Centre and Adult Education Institute -- KNSM- and Java-Island apartment blocks -- RuhrMuseum Zollverein Colliery (project) -- Projects II: Meta-minimalism -- [1] Herzog & de Meuron II -- Signal Box, Auf dem Wolf -- Tate Modern -- [2] José Rafael Moneo -- Kursaal Auditorium and Congress Centre -- Auditorium and Music Centre -- [3] Wiel Arets -- Academy for the Arts and Architecture -- Police Station -- Lensvelt Offices and Factory Building -- [4] Claus en Kaan -- Eurotwin Business Centre -- PTT Telecom Switching Stations -- Reception Pavilion, Zorgvlied Cemetery -- Vught Concentration Camp Museum -- [5] Dominique Perrault -- Technical Book Centre -- APLIX factory -- [6] SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa -- Police Box at Chofu Station -- Pachinko Parlor III -- Park Café -- CASA-S -- [7] BeL -- DIN -- [8] OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture I -- Guggenheim Hermitage -- Projects III: Trans-minimalism -- [1] Shigeru Ban -- Curtain Wall House -- Wall-less House -- Naked House -- Miyake Design Studio Gallery -- [2] OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture II -- Prada Epicenter Store -- [3] R & Sie ... -- Barak House -- Aqua Alta (project) -- Silverrelief / B-mu -- [4] Lacaton & Vassal -- Social housing -- Palais de Tokyo -- [5] Jürgen Mayer H. -- Stadthaus Scharnhauser Park -- [6] Sadar Vuga Arhitekti -- New entrance hall of the National Gallery -- Shopping Center Mercator -- Arcadia Lightwear Office and Exhibition Building -- [7] Zaha Hadid -- Terminus Hoenheim-Nord -- [8] Diller + Scofidio -- Blur -- Architects -- Bibliography -- Author biographies -- Illustration credits.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"What is minimalism? Or, more specifically, what isn't? In this fascinating aesthetic voyage, three experts in the field of architecture and art history trace the development of minimalism as a style and offer perspectives on the directions the movement is taking as it morphs towards the future. In double-page spreads filled with color photographs of the most innovative minimalist projects, this book illustrates three principal movements: the traditional, as practiced by Herzog & de Meuron in early works, Adolf Krischanitz and Tadao Ando; the ambiguous, in which architects not commonly associated with minimalism, such as OMA or Zaha Hadid, use it for specific projects; and the subversive, which appropriates minimalist concepts across a variety of new fields as exemplified in the architecture of Shigeru Ban or Lacaton & Vassal."--Jacket.

ISBN:

379132859X (pbk.)
9783791328591 (pbk.)

Subject:

Andō, Tadao 1941-
Krischanitz, Adolf 1946-
Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer Dipl. Architekten ETH, BSA, SIA
Diener & Diener Architekten
Herzog & de Meuron
Morger & Degelo
Minimal architecture.
Architecture minimale.
Architektur
Minimalismus

Added entries:

Ruby, Ilka.
Architecture in focus.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227979
Call No.: NA682.M55 M56 2003
Status: Available