Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Individual Architects & Firms - Essays

Architecture that is meant to have a sensuous connection to life calls forthinking that goes far beyond form and construction. In his texts, Peter Zumthor articulates what motivates him to design his buildings, which appeal to the visitor's heart and mind in so many different ways and possess a compelling and unmistakable presence and aura. Now in its third edition, this book has been expanded to include two new essays: "Architecture and Lanscape" deals with the relationship between the structure and its surroundings, with the secret of the successful placement and topographical...

Eine Architektur, die in einer sinnlichen Verbindung zum Leben stehen soll, erfordert ein Denken, das uber Form und Konstruktion weit hinausgeht. In seinen Texten bringt Peter Zumthor zum Ausdruck, was ihn zu diesen Gebauden motiviert, die Gefuhl und Verstand auf so vielfaltige Weise ansprechen und uber eine unbedingte Prasenz und Ausstrahlung verfugen.
Dieses Buch, das nun bereits in zweiter Auflage erscheint, wurde nun umzwei neue Essays erganzt: Architektur und Landschaft beschaftigt sich mit dem Verhaltnis von Bauwerk und Umgebung, dem Geheimnis der gelungenen Platzierung und...

Louis I. Kahn is one of the foremost architects of the twentieth century, having designed such famous landmarks as the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh; the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California; and the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. He planted a seed of inspiration in the architectural field that grew into a towering oak of lasting influence.

In this commemorative volume, Charles E. Dagit, Jr. shows the power and influence that Kahn displayed at the University of Pennsylvania's department of architecture in the 1960s. Since Dagit knew Kahn personally, this is...

The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural movement began with the proclamation of these convictions in the form of a program or manifesto. The most influential of these are collected here in chronological order from 1903 to 1963. Taken together, they constitute a subjective history of modern architecture; compared with one another, their great diversity of style reveals in many cases the...

Wolf D. Prix, founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au was more than 20 years head of Studio Prix at the Angewandte in Vienna. His architectural visions shaped the studio with radical concepts, high profile strategies and right from the beginning enabled students to develop projects for the world of the future.

Studio Prix was a creative cluster with intense teaching. This publication contains a selection of projects and diploma works of students as well as statements of international friends like Hitoshi Abe, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Klaus Bollinger, Chris Bangle, Aaron Betsky, Mario...

Among the topics explored in Volume 2 are Gensler's ongoing series of Workplace Surveys, conducted most recently in the US, UK, and Asia; Gensler's Brand...

Practicing for less than twenty-five years Miralles designed over 150 projects, many are now built including: the Scottish Parliament Buildings, Santa Caterina Market, Vigo University, Diagonal Mar Park, Alicante Gymnastic Center, and Igualada Cemetry.The book Conversations and Allusions, Enric Miralles brings together previously...

This unpublished work is a must read for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari s scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Marco does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places Frascari s text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work. Marco s sketchbooks are...

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari's scholarship and teachings over the last three decades. It also provides the perfect introduction for anyone new to his writings. As ever, Frascari does not offer prescriptive tools and frameworks to enact his theories of drawing and imagination; instead, he teaches how to build one's own through individual practice. An illuminating introduction places the text in a wider context, providing the reader with a fascinating and important context and understanding to this posthumous work....