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One of Texas's most talented architects in the late nineteenth
century, James Riely Gordon may have been the nation's most
prolific designer of county courthouses. Though Gordon's Texas
courthouses made his reputation, they represent only half of a
career in which we see reflected many issues and events shaping
American architecture. Most notable were the effort among
architects to organize their craft as a profession, the
controversial Office of the Supervising Architect of the United
States Treasury, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and the
City Beautiful Movement. Situating Gordon's career, Meister focuses
on the public architecture, the pursuit of which took Gordon from
San Antonio to Dallas and on to Chicago and New York City as he
secured commissions in nine states. Competition was fierce, and
Gordon often had to defend his reputation against scandalous
charges leveled by jealous architects and unscrupulous politicians.
In his interdisciplinary approach, Meister examines political,
cultural, and economic forces for their impact on the finished
buildings as well as on Gordon's career and exposes the political
and legal wrangling so often attendant to the construction of
buildings that serve as the nexus for their communities.
As a part of the debate on penitentiary architecture, this book
proposes a critical interpretation of the conceptual elements and
design approaches involved. This proposal, more than others, "mend"
the relationship, between theoretical conception and actual
building practice of the prison. The interpretation is developed
from the idea that the architectural project, when it materialises
in a built structure, is always the material expression of an
abstract idea and of a specific vision of the world which manifests
itself through the architectural consistency of the building and of
the built spaces. For a long time the subject of penitentiary
architecture had been neglected by contemporary architectural
culture, permitting the design of prisons to be the result of a
combination of obsolete practices, security regulations and the
wish to reduce construction costs, in detriment of the quality of
the interior space and of the efficiency of the penitentiary
treatment. Thus the conception of the building focused on severe
incarceration, and the refusal to accept the possibility of a more
open prison remained mostly unvaried through time. Today, the
subject of detention has once again caught the public eye, and that
the problems related to it have become untenable. The need has
become evident for a more efficient penitentiary system capable of
producing positive changes in the detainees. It is thus necessary
to re-think the architecture of detention in terms of the quality
of space and of the respect of the dignity of the individuals,
through new modes of detention, and especially through a
knowledgeable design that is the expression of a renewed cultural
stance that strengthens the re-educational value of the prison
sentence, no longer considering it exclusively as the temporal
suspension of certain rights. The objectives expressed through new
theoretical developments, represent an ambitious and progressive
project aimed at eradicating conservative and backward ideas
regarding the role of prison architecture, and propose a new
disciplinary conception of the architectural project, open to the
academic and professional world in the attempt to solve and make
effective the relationship between architectural design, building
practices and management of the penitentiary structure. The text
presented here focuses on the creation of organisational-functional
tools for open-regime minimum security structures and on the
identification of architectural solutions in which the residential
and domestic features of the structures prevail over the
typological and distributive layouts typical of traditional
penitentiary buildings. The analysis aims at identifying the main
essential principles for an efficient design, such as: the
location, size, spatial organisation, typology of housing space,
and last but not less important, the rationalisation of the
internal flows. The key elements identified are summarised into a
series of general design criteria aimed at establishing an
efficient relationship between the functional model and the
typological structure, as well as between the building and the
surrounding urban fabric.
In Place of a Show is a compelling account of Western theatre
buildings in the 21st century: theatres stripped of their primary
purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished.
Playfully combining first-person narratives, scholarly research and
visual documents, Augusto Corrieri explores the material and
imaginative potentials of these places, charting interconnections
between humans, birds, vegetation, and the beguiling animations of
inanimate things, such as walls, curtains and seats. Across four
chapters we learn of the uncanny dismantling and reconstitution of
a German Baroque auditorium during the Second World War; the
phantasmal remains of a demolished music hall in London's East End;
a Renaissance Italian theatre, fleetingly transformed into an
aviary by the appearance of a swallow; and a lavish opera house
emerging from the Amazon rainforest. In these pages we are invited
to discover theatres as sites of anomalous encounters and
surprising coincidences: places that might reveal the performative
entanglement of human and nonhuman worlds.
The introduction to this 7th volume focuses on the broader theme of
public space. How do you bring together habitat, mobility, social
interactions, amenities/services and culture? How do you rethink
urban mobility consistent with current technological, ecological
and digital issues? What place does the citizen have in the public
space, as a place to meet, a place where links are made and a clear
driving force for the quality of life? What examples are there to
follow and what solutions to offer? With participation of the
Bouwmeesters, who have set out their vision for us in Belgium, and
of the Citilinks architects, for an international perspective -
from New York to Shanghai, this is a must read reference book on
the greatest achievements in contemporary architecture of recent
years. From offices and shops, housing, public spaces, to cultural
& educational sites, there are over 60 recently completed
structures by Belgian and foreign architects to be discovered in
this latest volume. Text in English, French and Dutch.
Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna
from the fin-de-siecle to the present day, this book provides an
insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich
architectural tradition. Since 1900, Vienna has produced many great
architects and their work includes some of the finest masterpieces
of the twentieth century, such as Otto Wagner's Stadtbahn stations,
his Postsparkasse and his Majolica House, Adolf Loos's American Bar
and Goldman & Salastch, the Secession building by Joseph Maria
Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet. Beautifully
illustrated with paintings, drawings and photographs, the book
stresses the importance of the highly polarized cultural politics
that engulfed Vienna and produced much of what is modern in every
field of culture and science. It shows how leading cultural figures
such as Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Klimt and Twain encouraged a
'rebellious' architecture, which continued in later eras with the
Wiener Gruppe, amongst others. The book also relates architectural
history to the political economy that has shaped Vienna and
highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social
housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s.
Today, 60% of Vienna's population lives in the most successful
social housing in the world, which has proved to be an important
factor in stimulating the successful economy of the country as a
whole.
Modern skyscrapers function as small cities, with infrastructure
not unlike that hidden beneath the streets. Exploring the
interconnected systems that make life liveable in the sky, Ascher
examines skyscrapers from around the world to learn how these
structures operate.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Building-related art commissioned by the state brings politics,
society, architecture, and urban design together in a unique way.
In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), it was initially given the
function of propagating political contents and idealized images of
society. Artists increasingly emancipated themselves from
government guidelines and developed their own forms of expression
in interplay with their surroundings. Until today, many people
identify numerous artworks with their home country. The publication
documents the symposium "Building-related Art in the German
Democratic Republic" on the occasion of the anniversary "seventy
years of building-related art in Germany" in 2020. Renowned experts
examine building-related art in the GDR from the perspective of
aesthetics and contents and discuss this internationally unique
stock of artworks in detail.
This publication is the second in a series on architectural design
of theaters and concert halls.
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Meier
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Philip Jodidio; Edited by Peter Goessel
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Ever since his self-proclamation as part of the "New York Five,"
Richard Meier has risen through one top commission after another to
the dizzy heights of architectural stardom. From Madison Square
Garden to Shenzhen, China, his sleek, luminously white modernism
has created some of the most high-profile and distinctive buildings
of the 20th and 21st centuries. Meier's portfolio is as varied as
it is illustrious. He has worked with Roman treasures (Ara Pacis
Museum), seaside resorts (Jesolo Lido Village), civic centers (San
Jose City Hall), and private clients in the Hamptons. On each
project, Meier's hallmarks are careful grid plans and expansive use
of white surfacing and glass. The buildings are as much beacons of
brilliance from the exterior as they are temples to clarity and
purpose inside. This introductory book traces Meier's complete
career to explore the making of a cult architect. With abundant
images, we take in all his most famous projects, such as the Getty
Center in Los Angeles, as well as his most recent works such as the
OCT Shenzhen Clubhouse in Shenzhen, China; and the Burda Collection
Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany. About the series Born back in 1985,
the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book
collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic
Architecture series features: an introduction to the life and work
of the architect the major works in chronological order information
about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as
construction problems and resolutions a list of all the selected
works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most
famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs,
sketches, drafts, and plans)
This study of how the architecture of a building influences the
people who work in its is of interest to architects, behavioralists
and management personnel as well as fans of architecture in
general.
Libraries as a building type have been subjected to substantial
changes in particular in the past ten years. Milestones such as Rem
Koolhaas' Seattle Central Library from 2004 reinvented the typology
completely and reflected a development from elitist temple of
learning to a public living room. Hybrids between library and
department store or theater were conceived. Today, the ubiquity of
electronic devices and media needs to be taken into account by the
designer: every new library has areas without any books now. This
work of reference explains systematically all technological and
planning requirements of library design. Special features such as
RFID, signage, acoustics or specific structural load issues are
explained in texts by experts from the fields of architecture and
library science. Finally, approximately 40 best-practice case
studies of contemporary library design are documented extensively.
They are organized in four categories - national libraries, large
public libraries, small public libraries, university libraries -
and comprise high-profile examples such as Jo Coenen's Openbare
Bibliotheek Amsterdam, Alvaro Siza's Public Library Viana do
Castelo in Portugal or Mecanoo's Library of Birmingham from 2013.
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