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Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the ''clip-on'' approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of ''well-tempered environments'' fostered by integrated(...)
Reyner Banham and the paradoxes of high tech
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Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the ''clip-on'' approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of ''well-tempered environments'' fostered by integrated mechanical and electrical systems, and his late-career assessments of High Tech practitioners such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano. Gannon devotes significant attention to Banham’s late work, including fresh archival materials related to 'Making Architecture: The Paradoxes of High Tech', the manuscript he left unfinished at his death in 1988. For the first time, readers will have access to Banham’s previously unpublished draft introduction to that book.
Théorie de l’architecture
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These sharp and insightful texts, whether addressing the impact of digital technology, the design of an effective hotel, the emergence of the Los Angeles vanguard, or the proper execution of a thesis project, combine frontline reportage, archival scholarship, trenchant prose, and impressive critical acumen to cut through the cacophony of recent architectural discourse(...)
Figments of the architectural imagination
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These sharp and insightful texts, whether addressing the impact of digital technology, the design of an effective hotel, the emergence of the Los Angeles vanguard, or the proper execution of a thesis project, combine frontline reportage, archival scholarship, trenchant prose, and impressive critical acumen to cut through the cacophony of recent architectural discourse with uncommon clarity, intelligence, rigor, and wit. Taken together, these essays provide essential orientation for practitioners, academics, students, and afficionados hoping to understand how contemporary architecture came to be where it is and to speculate on where it might go next.
Théorie de l’architecture
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The second volume of the source books in architecture series, "The light construction reader" is a collection of 38 essays that explores the themes and issues surrounding this exhibition. Included here are essays by exhibition curator Terence Riley as well as noted architects and critics such as Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Greg Lynn, and Robin Evans. The complete(...)
The light construction reader / source books in architecture 2
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The second volume of the source books in architecture series, "The light construction reader" is a collection of 38 essays that explores the themes and issues surrounding this exhibition. Included here are essays by exhibition curator Terence Riley as well as noted architects and critics such as Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Greg Lynn, and Robin Evans. The complete transcripts of the Light Construction Symposium, held at Columbia University in conjunction with the exhibition, are also included. Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky’s essay 'Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal' is presented here for the first time together with its lesser-known sequel of 1971. Also represented are Italo Calvino, Jacques Derrida, Jean Starobinski, and many others.
Matériaux et éclairage
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"Bernard Tschumi/Zénith de Rouen" provides a detailed presentation of Bernard Tschumi's recently completed concert hall and exhibition complex in Rouen, France. This is the third in the new "Source Books in Architecture" series from Ohio State University.
Architecture, monographies
septembre 2003, New York
Bernard Tschumi : Zenith de Rouen / source books in architecture 3
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"Bernard Tschumi/Zénith de Rouen" provides a detailed presentation of Bernard Tschumi's recently completed concert hall and exhibition complex in Rouen, France. This is the third in the new "Source Books in Architecture" series from Ohio State University.
Architecture, monographies
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Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This volume gathers an array of theoretical polemics on buildings and cities, critical assessments of major projects and(...)
Swimming to suburbia and other essays
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Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This volume gathers an array of theoretical polemics on buildings and cities, critical assessments of major projects and personalities, and other writings that showcase Hodgetts' unique position as both a central figure in the discipline of architecture and a tireless advocate of technological opportunities developed at the fringes of the field.
Théorie de l’architecture
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Some buildings are famous. Others exist simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School of Architecture's recently completed Knowlton Hall. Designed by the internationally respected firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. "Mack Scogin Merrill(...)
Architecture, monographies
juillet 2005, New York
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam / Knowlton Hall : source books in architecture 6
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Some buildings are famous. Others exist simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School of Architecture's recently completed Knowlton Hall. Designed by the internationally respected firm Mack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. "Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects/Knowlton Hall" provides a comprehensive look at this impressive new work using sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs. As with all of the books in the "Source books in architecture series", it is accompanied by commentaries from the architects and critics who explore both the technical and contextual elements of the work.
Architecture, monographies
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With its striking, gridded facade and amoeba-shaped internal cavities, Steven Holl's new dormitory for MIT, Simmons Hall, is without question one of the most original and idiosyncratic architectural statements of recent memory. A veritable catalogue of ideas—from the use of colour to experimentation with form and materials—Simmons Hall is an essay in architectural(...)
Architecture, monographies
août 2004, New York
Steven Holl : Simmons Hall / source books in architecture 5
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With its striking, gridded facade and amoeba-shaped internal cavities, Steven Holl's new dormitory for MIT, Simmons Hall, is without question one of the most original and idiosyncratic architectural statements of recent memory. A veritable catalogue of ideas—from the use of colour to experimentation with form and materials—Simmons Hall is an essay in architectural imagination by one of the profession's most celebrated practitioners. This detailed monograph will allow readers to deconstruct this complex marvel of modern design and construction. Steven Holl Architects/Simmons Hall is documented with sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs at a level of detail that allow complete and careful study of the project. Commentary by the architect and design critics explores both the technical aspects and cultural contexts of the building.
Architecture, monographies
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Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex—the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion.(...)
Zaha Hadid : BMW central building
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Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complex—the dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building, the seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.
Architecture, monographies
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The Miller House, with its deft synthesis of modernist elements with American vernacular construction and an array of historical sources, marks a highly original swerve from modernist orthodoxy and a landmark achievement in American architecture. Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie's Miller House gathers new commentary and interpretation by leading voices in contemporary(...)
Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie's Miller House
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The Miller House, with its deft synthesis of modernist elements with American vernacular construction and an array of historical sources, marks a highly original swerve from modernist orthodoxy and a landmark achievement in American architecture. Et in Suburbia Ego: José Oubrerie's Miller House gathers new commentary and interpretation by leading voices in contemporary architecture including Jeffrey Kipnis, Kenneth Frampton and Douglas Graf alongside newly commissioned photographs and previously unpublished drawings and models from Oubrerie's archive, documenting the house at a level of detail rarely seen in architectural monographs.
Architecture, monographies
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"UN Studio/Erasmus Bridge" explores the eponymous Rotterdam bridge that brought UN Studio, the Dutch firm of Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, into the architectural spotlight. This volume features extensive photographic documentation by Hans Jurgen Commerell.
mai 2004, New York
UN Studio : Erasmus bridge / source books in architecture 4
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"UN Studio/Erasmus Bridge" explores the eponymous Rotterdam bridge that brought UN Studio, the Dutch firm of Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, into the architectural spotlight. This volume features extensive photographic documentation by Hans Jurgen Commerell.