Diller Scofidio + Renfro : architecture after images / Edward Dimendberg.

Main entry:

Dimendberg, Edward.

Title & Author:

Diller Scofidio + Renfro : architecture after images / Edward Dimendberg.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
©2013

Description:

240 pages : some color illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1976-1989 -- 1990-1999 -- 2000-2008.

Summary:

In "Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images", Edward Dimendberg offers the first comprehensive treatment of one of the most imaginative contemporary design studios. Since founding their practice in 1979, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have integrated architecture, urban design, media art, and the performing arts in a dazzling array of projects, which include performances, art installations, and books, in addition to buildings and public spaces. At the center of this work is a fascination with vision and a commitment to questioning the certainty and security long associated with architecture. Dimendberg provides an extensive overview of these concerns and the history of the studio, revealing how principals Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro continue to expand the definition of architecture, question the nature of space and vision in contemporary culture, and produce work that is endlessly surprising and rewarding, from New York's High Line to Blur, an artificial cloud, and Facsimile, a video screen that moves around a building facade. Dimendberg also explores the relation of work by DS+R to that of earlier modernists such as Marcel Duchamp and John Hejduk. He reveals how the architects' fascination with evolving forms of media, technology, and building materials has produced works that unsettle distinctions among architecture and other media. Based on interviews with the architects, their clients, and collaborators as well as unprecedented access to unpublished documents, sketchbook entries, and archival records, "Diller Scofidio + Renfro" is the most thorough consideration of DS+R in any language. Illustrated with many previously unpublished renderings in addition to photos from contemporary photographers, this book is an essential study of one of the most significant and creative architecture and design studios working today.

ISBN:

9780226151816 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226151816 (cloth ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780226008721
022600872X (e-book)
9780226008721 (e-book)

Subject:

Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Architecture United States.
Architecture États-Unis.
Architecture
United States

Form/genre:

Plaatwerken (vorm)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282473
Call No.: NA44.D578.9 D56 2013
Status: Available

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