Das offene Haus : für eine neue Architektur = Open house : towards a new architecture / Florentine Sack ; [Lektorat: Katharina Döring ; Übersetzung: SAW Communications, Sabine A. Werner, Suzanne Kirkbright].

Main entry:

Sack, Florentine, 1968-

Title & Author:

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, 2006.

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176).
Foreword -- Inspiration -- Introduction -- Architecture and nature -- Opposites -- Change -- Inside and outside -- Ambivalence -- Imperfection -- Plainness -- Growth -- The open house -- Void -- Authenticity -- A new architecture.
Also issued online.
Text in German and English.

Summary:

"Where does architecture stand today? Can it tackle the more complex demands of our time in an adequate way? Does it do true justice to the user's rising needs? And to what extent does it influence the relation between man and his environment? This book attempts to answer questions and to point out new, inspiring approaches in architecture. Starting out from traditional Japanese architecture, but also citing examples of classical Modernism, Open House offers diverse stimulus for a more imaginative planning and social praxis. Finally, successful examples by Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa and many others demonstrate not only the necessity to think seriously about a more open architecture, but also how easy its realisation is in everyday practice."--Jacket.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

3936314438 (pbk.)
9783936314434 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture 20e siècle Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Architecture, Modern Philosophy

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Location: Library main 244028
Call No.: BIB 173722
Status: Available

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