Title & Author:

Building upon building / edited by J. Engels & M. Grootveld.

Publication:

[Rotterdam, Netherlands] : Nai010 Publishers, [2016]
©2016

Description:

203 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Preface : Building upon building / Jantje Engels & Marius Grootveld -- 1. Essays : The perceptive professional architecture as the art of seeing / Lara Schrijver -- Highest fidelity / Christophe Van Gerrewey -- The living historical city / Dorine van Hoogstraten -- 2. Projects : Hydra / Monadnock -- Chandos house / Stephen Bates -- Third apartment building, St. Alban Tal, Basel / Hugh Strange -- An extension to Scuola Grande di San Marco / Mark Pimlott -- Goethe's Gartenhaus / Dow Jones -- Striping the block / Sub Office -- Jacob's ladder house / Lü̈tjens Padmanabhan -- St. James's place / Diederendirris -- More not less! / Adam Khan -- The view of the Maschinenmeister / Jules Schoonman -- Picturesque ratio / Humblé Martens -- Flatbuilding Westzeedijk / De Kort van Schaik -- Linnaeus, competition for the extension to the Stockholm Public Library / Baukuh -- Restoration / OMMX -- "The jammed house in the corner pulls itself up by its own hair" / Nbundm -- San Miniato al Monte / Veldwerk -- Picnic cloth / East -- Flirting with the past / re:architekti -- In dialogue with Gion A. Caminada, common ground & distinction / Barnaby Hughes & Hamish Warren -- Kaleidoscope / Studio Thys Vermeulen -- Alienation & adaptation / Donna van Milligen Bielke -- A sculptural colonnade / Anne Dessing -- AEG am Humboldthain / Studio Ossidiana -- Tow chapels / Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk -- My house in the former farm Gut Garkau / Gunnar Daan -- Apartment block Ippolito Nievo, 28 / Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin -- O.M. Ungers perimeter block extension / AMUNT -- Perspectives / Korth Tielens -- Slight adjustments (to Maaskant) / Fischer Multerer -- Merely an excavation of the buildings foundation / NU architectuuratelier -- Sanderson house / David Kohn -- A Dulwich double / Ryan W. Kennihan -- 'Das grüne Haus' by Albert Gessner, 1904 / Ties Linders -- Celebrating 'The architecture of the banal' / Office Winhov -- (fire) tower / Dierendonckblancke -- T' Huis WC / BeL -- Reflecting on Begraafplaats Zuiderhof / General Architecture -- Enclosed gardens, a hidden public attraction / Bedaux de Brouwer -- Data centre on Lexington Avenue / OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen -- "I never read The economist" / Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven -- Reflections / Hans van der Heijden -- All these facades: the city / De Vylder Vynck Tailleu -- Inside out / Els Claessens & Tania Vandenbussche -- Ringsiedling Siemensstadt / Robbrecht & Daem.

Summary:

In Building Upon Building, 45 contemporary European architects, including Stephen Bates, Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven, Monadnock, Dierendonckblancke and Humblé Martens, present their designs for a fictional expansion on an existing building, taking into account the design principles of the original structure.

ISBN:

9462082847 (paperback)
9789462082847 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern.
Buildings Repair and reconstruction Europe.
Architecture Conservation and restoration Europe.
Visionary architecture Europe Designs and plans.
Architects Europe Biography.
Architecture Conservation et restauration Europe.
Architecture visionnaire Europe Dessins et plans.
Architectes Europe Biographies.
Visionary architecture.
Architecture Conservation and restoration.
Architects.
Buildings Repair and reconstruction.
Europe.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Architectural drawings.
Biography.
Designs and plans.

Added entries:

Engels, J. (Jantje)
Grootveld, M. (Marius)
Engels, J. (Jantje) editor.
Grootveld, M. (Marius) editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293155
Call No.: BIB 237843
Status: Available