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This book provides a privileged glimpse into the conception and
execution of this superlative structure with a text by the renowned
architectural critic Aaron Betsky, an introduction and interview
with the architect by James Moore McCown, sumptuous photography by
Stetson Ybarra, Stephen Morgan and Daniel Joseph Chenin,
illuminating drawings, diagrams and layouts. An homage to the forts
built when the area was first being settled, the building sits
resplendently alone in the tranquility of the landscape: truly a
modern masterpiece.
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JOY - Kim Utzon Architect (Hardcover)
Aaron Betsky; Photographs by Torben Eskerod; Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda
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The white worlds Kim Utzon has created in Denmark and southern
Sweden over the last few decades are stage sets for the ordered
appearance of rational and reasonable human beings at work, at
home, or at play. Clear in their composition, sequence, and scale,
sensuous in their responseto light, and conducive to rest and
reason more than anything else, theare a refinement of the
Scandinavian Modern tradition in which he works. Combining sparse
and light-filled rooms surrounded or defined by open grids with
expressive roofs or objects, Utzon's work is able to make sense out
of complex programs and create relaxed and continuous spaces.
The work of [STRANG] is beautifully explored in this comprehensive
monograph which highlights the firm's site-specific and
climate-driven designs. The ability to create stunning
architectural designs while maintaining an acute awareness of the
surrounding environment has come to define their work. Under the
creative direction of Max Strang FAIA, the Miami-based firm
continues to advance many of the timeless concepts set forth by the
famed Sarasota School of Architecture. Strang's early exposure to
that mid-century modernism movement resulted in a deep respect for
structures that are intimately connected to their surroundings as
they celebrate the Florida climate.
The book provides a privileged insight into how this groundbreaking
architectural studio works, especially their innovative approach in
which their primary inspiration is derived from the constraints of
a given project, hence the subtitle, Inspired by constraints. It
shows how XRANGE’s unconventional architecture places an emphasis
on systemization and tactility, resulting in audacious but grounded
and utterly unique buildings. To do so, it features texts by the
principal architects, leading architecture critics, lavish
documentation and photography, and in-depth examinations of such
significant projects as The Wandering Walls, Ant Farm House, Stone
Cloud, and many more.
50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright presents the work and
imaginings of this beloved architect in an accessible and
compelling form. Here we may glean insight from an American master
and find inspiration for the thoughtful design of our own homes. By
means of succinct examples, pithy texts, and rich visuals, the
authors share fifty lessons, or learning points, with an eye to
Wright-designed houses and interiors, ranging from Inspired by
Nature, Make a Room Flexible with Screens, and Creating Liveable
Interiors with Textiles, to Learning from the East, Green Design
and Seeking Harmony and Balance. Each lesson is accompanied by
pearls of wisdom gathered from the master s trove of writings on
architecture and design. This gorgeously designed volume offers an
informal and yet richly detailed introduction to a seminal figure
of architecture, world-famous for his romantic Fallingwater and
magical Guggenheim Museum, and will be of much interest to the
budding architecture enthusiast, to the interior designer, to those
seeking ideas for their own homes, as well as to fans Frank Lloyd
Wright looking for just the right book. Included are colour
photographs, drawings, quotations from the writings, as well as
newly commissioned diagrams and thoughtful analysis by the authors.
Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we color, organize, and
form the world around us - and why do we call that a profession? In
this book, Thonik, an Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded
designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, researches
eleven personal reasons why they design - from the need to create
impact to a constant search for independence; from the benefits of
systems to the urgency of play. Why We Design looks back on
twenty-five years of design practice and speculates on the future
of graphic design.
When Joep van Lieshout (b. 1963) founded the art and architecture
studio that bears his name, he set in motion what has been
described as "a new Dutch architectural style dirty, delicious and
direct." Now Atelier Van Lieshout is 10, and the first major
monograph devoted to it, A Manual (1997), has been sold out for
years. This new overview brings readers into AVL's contrarian
applied art via luxuriously appointed "mobile homes," autonomous
communes and surreal art projects, with equal time given to
AVL-Ville (2001), a "free state" in Rotterdam's port, complete with
its own flag, its own constitution and its own currency, and the
revealing minutia of AVL's portfolio, from furniture to the "Bar
Rectum," a perverse take on the Oscar-Meyer Weiner Mobile. The idea
of art that can be used for a self-sufficient and independent
lifestyle hits a uniquely high point in AVL-Ville, a culmination of
all the work AVL has done before. And it lives on: After a
successful and tumultuous year of work, AVL has recently located
its first AVL-Ville export product in Park Middelheim in Antwerp:
the AVL Franchise Unit. This richly illustrated survey tracks AVL's
serious and often provocative portfolio through a crucial period in
its growth and development.
The book presents architecture as a spatial dialogue and an
exchange between character and audience, book and reader, building
and city. The book addresses how the discipline can be used as a
practice of human centred architecture. The book presents
architecture as a spatial dialogue and an exchange between
character and audience, book and reader, building and city.
Fourteen cinematic vignettes highlight projects as personified
characters that have their own histories, dreams, secrets and
stories to tell. Each vignette emphasises this relational culture
and the practice of CHK in working with the common bonds within a
space as more important than any individual arguments and divisions
within it.
Renny Ramakers is realizing projects that combine virtual
technologies and social media with the craft of design to develop
new social relations. For more than three decades, the Dutch art
historian, critic, and curator has been changing the nature and
purpose of design. As co-founder of the Droog Design collective,
she has championed the notion of furniture and industrial design as
a rethinking of today's world. When Droog first exhibited at the
Milan furniture fair in 1993, its assemblies of found materials and
witty forms instantly changed the landscape of design. Since then,
Ramakers has worked with makers and creators to move beyond slick
objects and towards critical projects that open our eyes to our
multifaceted realities while offering easy access and great joy to
users.
At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of
having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most
radical interpretation, modernism always comes too late. The modern
is that which is always new, which is to say, always changing and
already old by the time it has appeared. Modernism is always a
retrospective act, one of documenting or trying to catch what has
already appeared - an attempt to fix life as it is being lived.
Modernity is just the very fact that we as human beings are
continually remaking the world around us through our actions, and
are doing so consciously. Modernism is a monument to or memory of
that act, which in its own making tries to remake the world it is
pretending to represent.
A concrete tree trunk growing in the middle of a commercial street
in Tokyo, an airport terminal that looks almost like a bird's wing.
A skyscraper facade that seems to move like ocean waves, a
visitors' centre perfectly integrated into the landscape of
Taiwan's largest lake - nature is everpresent in Japanese architect
Norihiko Dan's buildings. His architecture never stands alone, for
Dan always seeks symbiosis; this appears in his combination of
geometric-archetypical with organic forms, in his urban planning
projects, which bring submerged historic and cultural identities
back to light, as well as in the ecological orientation of his
buildings. With dramatic contrasts in architectural language and
choice of materials, Norihiko Dan insistently calls for a
relationship between human beings and their surroundings. The
complex and fascinating work of this architect, who has received
many honours in Japan and Taiwan, is presented here to a Western
audience for the first time. A knowledgeable essay by Aaron Betsky
and a conversation between Norihiko Dan and Fumihiko Maki complete
this volume. Text in English and German.
Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal
lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that usually
lasts for generations. The more we understand the importance of
architecture, and the thinking and decisions behind the buildings
we create, the better world we will construct. Who better to guide
readers into the rich and complex world of contemporary
architecture than Aaron Betsky, former architect, author, curator
and museum director, and today dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright
School of Architecture. Combining his early experiences working and
meeting cutting-edge architects with his frequent role as jury
member selecting the world's most prominent global architects to
build icon for cities, Betsky possesses rare insight into the
mechanisms, politics and personalities that play a role in how
buildings in our societies and urban centres come to be. In some
fifty themes and drawing from his own experiences and encounters
with people and buildings around the world, he explores a broad
spectrum of topics, from the meaning of domestic space to the
spectacle of the urban realm. Accessible, instructive and hugely
enjoyable, this book will open the eyes of anyone dreaming of
becoming an architect, and bring a wry smile to anyone that already
is.
Andrew Bromberg, of global architecture and design practice Aedas,
was born and raised in the Rocky Mountains of the United States and
now lives and works in Asia. He is a leading light in the design of
cutting-edge skyscrapers and large-scale development projects that
consider cities not just as collections of buildings but as
human-made landscapes shaped by social and economic forces as
gradual or as abrupt as the erosions, accretions, uplifts and
explosions that shape the natural world. Now inhabiting the craggy
mixture of natural and human-made structures that define Hong Kong,
Bromberg has long modelled his work on his knowledge of nature and
his understanding of tectonic forces, both natural and human.
Drawing on a series of conversations and exploratory walks in major
Asian cities - including Singapore and Ghuangzou - architecture
critic Aaron Betsky reveals how Bromberg visualizes his settings
and locates his designs within the complex and dynamic contexts in
which they appear. Interspersed amid these urban reflections is a
largely visual presentation of over twenty of Bromberg's most
exciting recent projects across Asia and the Middle East. Together
these comprise a monograph/manifesto that offers a singular vision
for the cities that will shape our future world.
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