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What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions better than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging(...)
Talking architecture: interviews with architects
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What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions better than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of perspectives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in shaping the state of the art today. Each interview focuses on the unique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied by images of their most important works.
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October 2008
Architectural Theory
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Drawing is to architects what writing is to authors. Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book is a paean to the graphic by one of its greatest proponents, Sir Peter Cook. Thematically organised by chapter, Cook joyfully talks us trough drawing as a motive, strategy, vision, image, composition, expression, technique,(...)
Drawing: the motive force of architecture
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Drawing is to architects what writing is to authors. Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, this book is a paean to the graphic by one of its greatest proponents, Sir Peter Cook. Thematically organised by chapter, Cook joyfully talks us trough drawing as a motive, strategy, vision, image, composition, expression, technique, surface and fantasy. He provides us with amusing perceptive commentary at every turn, drawing our attention to some of the greatest and most intriguing drawings, ranging from Heath-Robinson, Hugh Ferris and Arthur Beresford Pite to Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Ron Herron, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Bernard Tschumi and Lebbeus Woods.
Architectural Drawing
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"Criticat" is an independent journal of architectural criticism published twice annually. Based in Paris, it was founded in 2007 by a group of architects, historians, and critics on a simple premise: that informed and daring criticism could bring architecture back into everyday public discourse. Twenty-three exemplary articles have been selected from the journal's first(...)
Yours critically: writings on architecture from issues 1-10 of Criticat
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"Criticat" is an independent journal of architectural criticism published twice annually. Based in Paris, it was founded in 2007 by a group of architects, historians, and critics on a simple premise: that informed and daring criticism could bring architecture back into everyday public discourse. Twenty-three exemplary articles have been selected from the journal's first ten issues, and appear here in English for the first time. Individual investigations tackle subjects from around the globe: projects by Frank Gehry and Jürgen Mayer h, high-rise buildings in Paris, the purity of New Zealand's landscape, New York's High Line, and much more.
Architectural Theory
GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project(...)
GA Houses 119
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Issue 119 features three projects by Gurjit Singh Matharoo (b. 1966 in Ajmer, India), a Glass/Wood House by Kenga Kuma, a space in Dutchess County, New York by Steven Holl, some small houses by Frank Gehry, the Gagarin House in Connecticut by Marcel Breuer, a house by Ken Yokogawa, a house by Takashi Yamaguchi, a house by Shigeru Fuse, a project by Alphaville, a project by Keisuke Maeda and an art collector’s loft in Manhattan by UN Studio. The ‘Elements’ series focuses on Gurjit Singh Matharoo and Eric Owen Moss.
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AV 235: Masters' Memoirs
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The voice of memory rings loud and clear on the pages of the new issue of 'AV Monographs', a compilation of conversations that Luis Fernández-Galiano has had over the years with ten architects recounting their respective lives and professional trajectories. Arranged by age of the speakers – from Frank Gehry, the most veteran of all, to Bjarke Ingels – and transcribed in(...)
AV 235: Masters' Memoirs
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The voice of memory rings loud and clear on the pages of the new issue of 'AV Monographs', a compilation of conversations that Luis Fernández-Galiano has had over the years with ten architects recounting their respective lives and professional trajectories. Arranged by age of the speakers – from Frank Gehry, the most veteran of all, to Bjarke Ingels – and transcribed in the form of monologues, the interviews trace the biographical journey of each architect, from family origins, upbringing, and educational training to latest projects at the time of the dialogue, and are illustrated with the most characteristic works and projects of their career.
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In Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow, Maxwell considers the notion of doubt encountered by the modern architect. In ten chapters that draw upon writers and topics as diverse and engaging as Andre Malraux and his concept of the Musée Imaginaire, Colin Rowe and his exploration of Mannerism in Modern Architecture as well as Rowe s book with Fred Koetter, Collage City, and(...)
Ancient wisdom and modern knowhow: learning to live with uncertainty
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In Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow, Maxwell considers the notion of doubt encountered by the modern architect. In ten chapters that draw upon writers and topics as diverse and engaging as Andre Malraux and his concept of the Musée Imaginaire, Colin Rowe and his exploration of Mannerism in Modern Architecture as well as Rowe s book with Fred Koetter, Collage City, and examining works by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Picasso and Duchamp and architects including James Stirling, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind, Maxwell steps through a range of ideas and concepts, to create an engaging and provocative thesis.
Architectural Theory
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In 'Nothing less than literal : architecture after minimalism', Mark Linder shows how minimalist art of the 1960's was infiltrated with architecture, resulting in a reconfiguration of the disciplines of both art and architecture. Linder traces the exchange of concepts and techniques between architecture and art through a reading of the work of critics Clement Greenberg,(...)
Nothing less than literal : architecture after minimalism
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In 'Nothing less than literal : architecture after minimalism', Mark Linder shows how minimalist art of the 1960's was infiltrated with architecture, resulting in a reconfiguration of the disciplines of both art and architecture. Linder traces the exchange of concepts and techniques between architecture and art through a reading of the work of critics Clement Greenberg, Colin Rowe, Michael Fried, and the artist-writer Robert Smithson, and then locates a recuparation of "the architecture of minimalism" in the contemporary works of John Hejduk and Frank Gehry.
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December 2004, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural Theory
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The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building's cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural(...)
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January 1900, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Museums in the 21st century : concepts, projects, buildings
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The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building's cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural plans. The book encompasses four continents and highlights, among others, the designs of Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Zaha Hadid, Mario Botta, David Chipperfield, Tadao Ando, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Daniel Libeskind. In addition, the authors provide thoughtful commentary on the relationship between architecture and the fine arts and an assessment of museum functionality in modern times.
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January 1900, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Commercial interiors, Building types
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In Architecture under Construction, photographer Stanley Greenberg explores the anatomy and engineering of some of our most unusual new buildings, helping us to understand our own fascination with what makes buildings stand up, and what makes them fall down. Framed by a historical and critical essay by Joseph Rosam, the eighty images collected focus on some of the(...)
March 2010
Architecture under construction
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In Architecture under Construction, photographer Stanley Greenberg explores the anatomy and engineering of some of our most unusual new buildings, helping us to understand our own fascination with what makes buildings stand up, and what makes them fall down. Framed by a historical and critical essay by Joseph Rosam, the eighty images collected focus on some of the most high-profile design projects of the past decade, including buildings designed by Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Renzo Piano, among others.
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Founded during the Space Age boom of the fifties, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus showcases some of California's finest postwar architecture, ranging from spare sixties concrete structures to light, open California modernists designs and, in the new millennium, buildings that reflect that latest ideas about connecting buildings with the emerging(...)
University of California San Diego: The campus guide
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Founded during the Space Age boom of the fifties, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus showcases some of California's finest postwar architecture, ranging from spare sixties concrete structures to light, open California modernists designs and, in the new millennium, buildings that reflect that latest ideas about connecting buildings with the emerging campus community. The book presents almost ninety significant architectural works on the UCSD campus and reveals the very sources of modernist California architecture, from the influence of Richard Neutra, Frank Gehry, and the Case Study Architects in Los Angeles, to early San Diego modernist Louis Gill, and architect Louis Kahn.
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