Famously labelled the father, poet, and prophet of green
architecture and a vocal proponent of the idea that any project in
architecture or design must present new or better ways of living or
be deemed immoral, Emilio Ambasz is an award-winning architect,
industrial designer, and protean maker of forms. He has invented
highly efficient engines, modular furniture, streetlamps, flexible
pens, expandable suitcases, ergonomic door handles,
wrist-computers, dental hygiene systems, and 3D posters. He created
the Vertebra chair, the first ever automatic, ergonomic chair in
the world, now part of the permanent collections at MoMA and The
Met in New York. In architecture he has long been a pioneer, and
has retained a belief in the environment, or rather the larger
ecology, as fundamental in viewing the world: as Professor Bergdoll
notes of Ambasz in his introduction, his philosophy of green over
gray may often have fallen on deaf ears at the height of
Postmodernism, but it today seems profoundly relevant. And it is in
the context of today that the book considers the work of Emilio
Ambasz and its three main areas of concentration architecture,
industrial design, curating with an aim of shining a light on the
interdisciplinary nature of the work as a whole. Featuring built
and manufactured designs that have achieved iconic fame and
challenged others to approach new ways of reconciling architecture
and nature notably the Prefectural Hall at Fukuoka, Japan, and the
conservatory buildings of the San Antonio Botanical Garden, in
addition to his own unique house outside Seville in Spain the book
also considers Ambasz s work as curator at MoMA and his ongoing
influence and legacy.
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