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Richard Rogers, founder of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, is a
pre-eminent architect of his generation, whose approach to
buildings is infused with his enthusiasm for modernism, love of
life and strong sense of social justice. From the Pompidou Centre
in Paris to the Lloyds Building in the City of London, and from
airports, to cancer care centres to low-cost homes, the buildings
he and his partners have designed blend private use, public space
and civic value. In part inspired by his 2013 Royal Academy
exhibition, A place for all people is a mosaic of life, projects
and ideas for a better society. Ranging backwards and forwards over
a long and creative life, and integrating relationships, projects,
stories, collaborations and polemics, with case studies, drawings
and photographs A place for all people is a dazzling and inspiring
book as original as its author.
Sir John Soane's Influence on Architecture from 1791: A Continuing
Legacy is the first in-depth study of this eighteenth-century
British architect's impact on the work of others, extending
globally and still indeed the case over 200 years later. Author
Oliver Bradbury presents a compelling argument that the influence
of Soane (1753-1837) has persevered through the centuries, rather
than waning around the time of his death. Through examinations of
internationally-renowned architects from Benjamin Henry Latrobe to
Philip Johnson, as well as a number of not so well known Soanean
disciples, Bradbury posits that Soane is perhaps second only to
Palladio in terms of the longevity of his influence on architecture
through the course of more than two centuries, from the early 1790s
to today, concluding with the recent return to pure revivalism.
Previous investigations have been limited to focusing on Soane's
late-Georgian and then post-modern influence; this is the first
in-depth study of his impact over the course of two centuries.
Through this survey, Bradbury demonstrates that Soane's influence
has been truly international in the pre-modern era, reaching
throughout the British Isles and beyond to North America and even
colonial Australia. Through his inclusion of select, detailed case
studies, Bradbury contends that Soane's is a continuing, not
negated, legacy in architecture.
Villa le Lac, which was designated a World Heritage in 2016, was
designed and built by Le Corbusier as Geneva lakeside home for his
parents in 1925. Because of its spare arrangement of spaces, he
referred to it as a "dwelling machine." Even today it remains the
modern prototype of the "small house" that fulfills all of the
functions of a residence with a minimum of floor area and seamless
transitions between spaces. For the first time, this book is
appearing in three separate language editions, following the
original edition in which Le Corbusier documented the history of
the building: with photographs, sketches and a poetic text. Access
to the original photographs allowed the quality of the
illustrations in this edition to be improved significantly.
Ken Yeang remains one of the world's foremost experts on
sustainability and the modern skyscraper. Acknowledging that the
skyscraper is possibly one of the most ecologically unfriendly of
all building types, he states that until an economically viable
alternative is identified, it is necessary to make them as humane
and as sustainable as possible. Each project is presented together
with data on its climatic location, the local vegetation, plot
ratio, net and gross areas.
Anthony Poon's passion for music inspires a vibrant architecture
that engages its users and the environment. Affordability and
sustainability are hallmarks of Poon's designs, which fuse quality
and innovation. His success explodes the myth that
architect-designed houses are more expensive and challenging than
generic solutions and raises the bar for developers and architects
alike. This monograph explores three fields in which Poon Design
have excelled: housing, schools, and restaurants. It explains how
they enrich the experience of living, learning, and eating, and
promote social interaction. Readers can track the creative process
from concept sketch to model, plan to completion.
In 1927, while a student of architecture at the Moscow Vhutemas,
Georgii Krutikov presented a vision for a flying city. More than
just a flight of architectural fancy, Krutikov's flying city was a
utopian dream, a plan to solve the seemingly intractable problems
of overcrowding and resource depletion by moving humanity's living
quarters to space. Inspired in equal parts by sci-fi dreams of
space travel and the revolutionary idealism that still percolated
in the Soviet Union at that time, Krutikov created an incredible
amount of detailed information about his city: sketches, drawings,
plans, and more. Krutikov's flying city has been cited as a major
influence on Russian modernism for decades, yet little has been
written about the design, its creator, or his subsequent
architectural career. This beautifully illustrated book fills that
gap, presenting a detailed study of Krutikov's scheme and its
underlying ethos, then tracing Krutikov's later work as an
architect. It will interest-and amaze-all fans of the avant-garde,
architecture, and Russian history.
Luke Him Sau/Lu Qianshou (1904 1991) is best known internationally
and in China as the architect of the iconic Bank of China
Headquarters in Shanghai. One of the first Chinese students to be
trained at the Architectural Association in London in the late
1920s, Luke s long, prolific and highly successful career in China
and Hong Kong offers unique insights into an extraordinary period
of Chinese political turbulence that scuppered the professional
prospects and historical recognition of so many of his colleagues.
Global interest in China has risen exponentially in recent times,
creating an appetite for the country s history and culture. This
book satiates this by providing a highly engaging and visual
account of China s 20th-century architecture through the lens of
one of the country s most distinguished yet overlooked designers.
It features over 250 new colour photographs by Edward Denison of
Luke s buildings and original archive material. The book charts
Luke s life and work, commencing with his childhood in colonial
Hong Kong and his apprenticeship with a British architectural firm
before focusing on his education at the Architectural Association
(1927 30). In London, Luke was offered the post of Head of the
Architecture Department at the newly established Bank of China,
where IM Pei s father was a senior figure. Luke spent the next
seven years in the inimitable city of Shanghai designing buildings
all over China for the Bank before the Japanese invasion in 1937
forced him, and countless others, to flee to the proxy wartime
capital of Chongqing. In 1945 he returned to Shanghai where he
formed a partnership with four other Chinese graduates of UK
universities; but civil war (between the Communists and
Nationalists) once again caused him and others to uproot in 1949.
Initially intent on fleeing with the Nationalists to Taiwan, Luke
was almost convinced to stay in Communist China but decided finally
to move to Hong Kong. There, for the third time in his life, he had
to establish his career all over again. Despite many challenges, he
eventually prospered, becoming a pioneer in the design of private
residences, schools, hospitals, chapels and public housing.
Dayton Eugene Egger: The Paradox of Place in the Line of Sight,
showcases the pedagogical sketches of Dayton Eugene Egger, the
Patrick and Nancy Lathrop Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech School
of Architecture + Design. To Egger, architectural education is a
vibrant vehicle for creating and disseminating knowledge across
generations. It simultaneously concerns learning from the past and
presents possible futures. Egger points to lessons learned from
Josef Albers related to the 'criticality of seeing' and displaying
information. For Egger, these discursive departure points engage
both the place of potential discovery and the act of applying
knowledge to a given situation and a given context. The book
comprises three parts - Gene Egger's pedagogy as sparked by travels
to Europe and North America and its direct impact on students as
evidenced through drawing. Essay contributions by Kenneth Frampton,
Dayton Eugene Egger, Steven + Cathi House, Mitzi Vernon, Paul
Emmons, Mark Blizard, Michael OBrien, Gregory Luhan, and Frank
Weiner bridge these three 'chapters' and provide critical insights
or personal reflections.
From artworks and chairs to architecture, landscaping and interior
design, Michael Boyd's devotion to the principles of modernism is
comprehensive. An artist and musician, he acquired his expertise as
a collector, surrounding himself with rare and beautiful finds. His
immersion in the philosophy and creativity of the masters inspired
him to restore a succession of classic modern houses, curate
exhibitions, create a versatile range of furniture and rugs, and
design sculptural gardens. Millennium Modern: Living in Design
details his work across the first two decades of the new millennium
and reflects his belief that the tenets of modernism - honesty and
simplicity - developed more than a century ago, are equally
relevant to our pluralistic age. In contrast to the pioneers who
wanted to do away with the past, his creations are deeply rooted in
the history of design. Essays by Boyd and architectural writer
Michael Webb, along with comments from collaborators and critics,
explore each facet of his residential design. This beautifully
illustrated volume reveals Boyd's holistic design practice from his
discovery of design classics in flea markets, to his own furniture
designs, which feature in residential interiors, hotels and
museums, through to his sensitive restoration of the houses by Paul
Rudolph and Oscar Niemeyer, Richard Neutra and Craig Ellwood, and
the sculptural landscapes he designed to enhance these residences,
as well as masterpieces by John Lautner.
AHL is the most prominent, prestigious, and progressive
architectural practice working in Hawaii. As such, the history of
Modern Hawaiian architecture is very much the history of AHL. Over
the past 75 years, no firm has built bigger, higher, or more
frequently that AHL. This book tells their story and in so doing,
tells the story of the making of a modern Hawaii. The output of the
firm is extraordinary, ranging from numerous state and federal
facilities like the Hawaii State Capitol building to the Prince
Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole Federal Building. The first high-rises in
Hawaii belong to AHL along with some of most high-profile
residential (Moana Pacific), hospitality (Aulani, A Disney Resort
& Spa), healthcare and education (John A. Burns School of
Medicine), and commercial complexes like the American Savings Bank
and Pacific Guardian Center Towers, to numerous retail stores,
schools and university buildings, churches, and extensive work with
the military.
Of the around 20 biennials and triennials worldwide devoted to
architecture, the Venice Architecture Biennale is the most
prominent, considered as the world's leading biannual architecture
festival. The participating architects selected every second year
come from around the world to engage in the most important
information exchange in the world of architecture. Aires Mateus
Architects is the architectural practice operated by two brothers,
Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus. They have been invited five
times to participate in Venice. This publication will introduce the
five architectural installations they contributed to the biennales
in the last decade. The publication consists of five individual
parts, each of them a separate book, and held together by a
French-fold-dustjacket. Each book is dedicated to one exhibition in
Venice. The beautiful projects presented in this volume set an
outstanding example of architectural installations reflecting space
in a sensitive, poetic and mathematical way. Over the last three
decades, Aires Mateus have gained international recognition for
their contemporary reinterpretation of architectural traditions in
Portugal. Their work is poetic in nature, and much of it is based
on constant exploration and experimentation. Their abstract
architectural installations are the artistic manifestation of this
work. Every installation will be introduced with a short essay,
especially written for this publication by philosophers,
architects, and an art critic. With contributions by Francisco and
Manuel Aires Mateus, Ricardo Carvalho, Nuno Crespo, Sofia Pinto
Basto, Paulo Pires do Vale, and Delfim Sardo.
The Studio for Immediate Spaces (SIS) is a two-year MA programme at
Amsterdam's renowned Sandberg Instituut. It aims to explore and
shape spatial practices on the genesis and production of
contemporary spatial configurations. Through extensive field
investigations, SIS works as a laboratory, testing ideas relevant
to how we live today and how we could live tomorrow. Rural
flatlands, suburbia and gritty city settings; Mediterranean
shorelines and Alpine mountainscapes; open-pit mines and industrial
legacies; abandoned buildings and unfinished infrastructures;
harbours, airports and refugee camps: Such places were the sites of
SIS's research and production between 2016 and 2019. Directed by
Swiss architect Leopold Banchini, it embraced a truly global
approach that crossed, and deliberately ignored, borders. This book
offers a glimpse into this unique journey around the world.
Illustrated with some 790 colour and black-and-white photographs,
it features work produced collectively by participants in
simultaneous roles of geographer, researcher, architect, urban
planner and designer. Brief texts on each project and essays by
Leopold Banchini and other SIS faculty, studio participants as well
as by curator and writer Lukas Feireiss round out this exceptional
documentation of forward-thinking higher education in spatial
design.
With his artistic works, the sculptor Winfried Baumann (* 1956)
evokes questions of social responsibility and the perception of
contemporary social forms. His subjects are highly topical both as
regards content with respect to social and urban-planning visions,
and also formally as they cross the borders between fine art and
applied design. For over thirty years the sculptor Winfried Baumann
has focused his attention in the ecological problems which are
increasingly advancing to become a question of survival for
civilised society. Refuse, slag from the burning of refuse, waste
oil and other waste products from our consumer society are
materials which he has been using since the mid-1980s for his
three-dimensional works and large-scale installations. In his very
extensive group of works "Cathedrals" Winfried Baumann examines,
for example, waste-disposal plants for large urban spaces, with the
protection and marking of nuclear contaminated sites,
waste-disposal facilities for large urban spaces and intermediate
urban spaces and with the subject of urban mining.
Frederick the Great as a gardener? That is something new. In fact,
however, under Frederick's idiosyncratic guidance, the garden at
Sanssouci became a mirror of his personal and political roles.
Paths, plantings, architecture, and sculptures express his notions
of death, happiness, and fame. Frederick used famous forms of
mythological representation, as well as mysterious allegorical
allusions and emblematic references. The "axis of knowledge"
defined his Prussian Arcadia as the best of all possible worlds,
where the "philosopher of Sanssouci" and his friends devoted
themselves to the arts and sciences. The "axis of power," on the
other hand, represents his fame and ambition as a European monarch
who legitimized his rule not only via the Hohenzoller and Orange
dynasties, but also through the tradition of the pharaohs, the
Roman emperors, and Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Manual for Urban Design Urban design is based on planning and
design principles that need to meet functional demands on the one
hand, but on the other hand bring the design elements together into
a distinctive whole. The basic compositional principles are, for
the most part, timeless. Designing Cities examines the most
important design and presentation principles of urban design, using
historical examples and contemporary international competition
entries designed by practices including Foster + Partners, KCAP
Architects & Planners, MVRDV, and OMA. At the core of the
publication is the question of how the projects were designed and
what methods and tools were available to the designer: such as
parametric design, in which variable parameters automatically
influence the design and provide a range of possible solutions.
Tools for urban design Current projects and award-winning
competition entries by renowned international practices A textbook
for students and a practical design aid for practicing architects
and planners
From 1940 to 1970, mid-Michigan had an extensive and varied legacy
of modernist architecture. While this book explores buildings by
renowned architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alden B. Dow, and
the Keck brothers, the text-based on archival research and oral
histories-focuses more heavily on regional architects whose work
was strongly influenced by international modern styles. The reader
will see a picture emerge in the portrayal of buildings of various
typologies, from residences to sacred spaces. The automobile
industry, state government, and Michigan State University served as
the economic drivers when the mid-Michigan area expanded enormously
in the growing optimism and increasing economic prosperity after
World War II. Government, professional associations, and private
industry sought an architectural style that spoke to
forward-looking, progressive ideals. Smaller businesses picked a
Prairie style that made people feel comfortable. Modernist houses
reflected the increasingly informal American lifestyle rooted in
the automobile culture. This expanded paperback edition adds over
twenty architect-designed residences along the various rivers and
creeks that traverse the area as well as on man-made lakes, and
introduces several popular architectural designers not previously
discussed. The epilogue briefly considers disappearing modernist
inventions and buildings. With a detailed narrative discussing more
than 150 buildings and enriched by 186 illustrations, this text is
a vibrant start at reclaiming the history of mid-Michigan modernist
architecture.
Part manifesto and part monograph, Radical Practice reflects the
ethos and endeavors of Marlon Blackwell, a charismatic architect in
the prime of his career, producing extraordinary architecture for
everyday places from his studio in the Ozarks of Arkansas.
Celebrating thirty years of practice in 2022, Marlon Blackwell is
among the most admired architects in the country. But he isn't
known for sky-high towers or houses for the one-percent crowd.
Blackwell prioritizes the common good of shared spaces over the
private luxuries of domestic design. Be it a pediatric clinic in
Arkansas, a school in Texas, a model house in post-Katrina
Mississippi, or a public park in Tennessee, his architecture is
characterized by bold forms that both echo and elevate the local
context-often through an economy of means. Each of the fourteen
buildings profiled in this book is paired with an unvarnished
photographic journey through roadside influences and an essay by a
leading designer, planner, or artist. These pairings capture the
radically conventional principles and practices, the time-honored
methods and materials, that Blackwell mines to create works that
are far from commonplace.
Here, Jacob Brillhart excavates the "visual thinking" of the
twentieth century's pioneer architect, reproducing a selection of
175 drawings from the early sketchbooks of Charles-Edouard
Jeanneret, whom we now know as Le Corbusier. Between 1907 and 1911,
Jeanneret studied in Switzerland and travelled through Europe and
the East, filling sketchbooks with exquisitely detailed drawings.
Brillhart provides a physical and intellectual map for students,
travellers and lovers of art and architecture. The first book to
provide a succinct collection of Jeanneret's drawings, some of
which are previously unpublished, Voyage Le Corbusier encourages a
new generation to learn to see.
Over the past years, Dhaka-based architect Kashef Chowdhury has
become renowned for a body of work that responds with great
sensitivity to places, local circumstances, and the demands of a
building's users. At the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition
of the Venice Biennale, Chowdhury presented four recent projects
his firm URBANA has realised in Bangladesh in a fascinating
exhibition which he has designed with equal sensitivity and care.
The labyrinth is an age-old space of intrigue, discovery and
accident, which has fascinated architects throughout history. For
his installation in Venice, Chowdhury challenged spatial
perceptions by a simple turn: the labyrinth - which hides and
blocks - is suddenly made transparent. Notwithstanding the obvious
reference to Venetian glass, the labyrinth retains, or even
accentuates, a sense of spatial disorientation. The installation
was conceived not merely as a hyper-maze but rather as an
expression of the anxiety that the artist experiences in his work
due to a myriad of uncertainties. From design to construction,
funding to maintenance, the part of the world where URBANA chiefly
works presents itself with challenges at every turn, and it is in
this milieu that an architect must operate with firm resolve.
Chowdhury's Glass Labyrinth in Venice seems to explicate the notion
that, although an architect has a clear vision of what he wants to
do, the path to achieving that in the environment in which he
operates, is laden with perplexing barriers. This new book explores
and documents Kashef Chowdhury's intriguing installation in Venice
with beautiful photographs by Eric Chenal and an illuminating text
by Robert McCarter.
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