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

Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary architectural colony where Wright trained hundreds of devoted apprentices and where all of his late masterpieces--Fallingwater, Johnson Wax, the...

Der Begriff Minimalismus wurde zunachst in der Welt der Kunst gebraucht, um das Wirken von Donald Judd, Sol Le Witt und anderen zu charakterisieren. Bald zeigte sich auch in der Architektur die Fruchtbarkeit dieser kreativen Herangehensweise. Das Werk von bedeutenden zeitgenossischen Architekten ist ganz oder teilweise dieser Haltung verpflichtet. Die vorliegende Darstellung untersucht zunachst die historischen Wurzeln dieser Stromung: Loos, Wittgenstein, Mies und Asplund gehoren zu den massgebenden Vorlaufern. Im Hauptteil des Buches finden dann die aktuellen Protagonisten...

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...

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...

Outspoken, provocative, and prolific, the artist Ai Weiwei is an international phenomenon. In recent years, he has produced an astonishingly varied body of work while continuing his role as activist, provocateur, and conscience of a nation. Ai Weiwei is under "city arrest" in Beijing after an 81-day imprisonment; he is accused of tax evasion, but many suspect he is being punished for his political activism, including his exposure of shoddy school building practices that led to the deaths of thousands of children in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2009, he was badly beaten by the police...