A fascinating architectural study in museum design and urban planning. Designed by the internationally renowned Swiss firm of Herzog &amp; de Meuron, winners of the 2001 Pritzker Prize, the new de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is a stunning architectural tour de force. This book documents the complex five-year process that resulted in an outstanding contribution to contemporary museum architecture. Founded by San Francisco Chronicle publisher Michael de Young, the museum originated in the Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 and grew to become the city's largest art museum. Its superb permanent collection includes the arts of Africa, Oceania, and traditional cultures of the Americas; American painting and sculpture from the colonial period to the present; and both Western and non-Western textiles. After the de Young was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the museum's fateand the decision to replace the old building with a new museum on the same sitebecame the focus of intense public debate. How Herzog &amp; de Meuron, in cooperation with the San Francisco firm of Fong &amp; Chan Architects and Oakland-based landscape designer Walter Hood, responded to the challenge of creating a building in harmony with its park setting is an important theme of the story. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs as well as plans, drawings, and models, the book traces the architects' creative process in striking detail. The new de Young is significant as Herzog &amp; de Meuron's first major building in North America and as the first museum the architects have designed from the ground up. Reflecting its surroundings, the building is clad entirely in a skin of dimpled and perforated, naturally oxidized copper panels, whose abstract pattern was distilled from manipulated photographs of the park's tree canopy. With its elegant, twisting tower rising above the tree line, providing visitors with dramatic views, the de Young is a superlative work of architecture and a handsome tribute to the city of San Francisco. 250 illustrations, 200 in color.

The de Young in the 21st Century: A Museum by Herzog & de Meuron

Arts & Photography

Aaron Betsky

Mitchell Schwarzer

Diana Ketcham

Michael Corbett

Architecture

Thames&Hudson

Published on the celebration of the United Nations' sixtieth anniversary. When it was completed in 1952 on a site on New York's East River, the United Nations building stood as a symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity after the Second World War. One of the most historic commissions of the twentieth century was seen through by architect Wallace Harrison, whose triumph put him on the cover of Time magazine. Today, more than fifty years later, the building is regarded as one of the pinnacles of mid-century modernism. Its magnificent public spaces and assembly halls, as well as its artworks by Picasso, Chagall, and many others, make it one of the most visited sites in New York. This publication presents a portrait of this fascinating building, through specially commissioned photography and illuminating essays that bring alive the historic events, speeches, and gatherings that have been central to the world's development since 1945. 200 illustrations in color and black and white.

The U.N. Building (United Nations)

Kofi Annan

Ben Murphy

"An introductory historical survey on the many and creative ways humans have fought for and against the earth beneath our feet…reveals an architecture that reads the text and texture of the land in three dimensions." —ArchitectureDevelopments in structural engineering have made it possible to engage the earth's surface as a building element. With an increased awareness of the planet's limited natural resources and with landscape architects exerting ever-greater influence on contemporary design, architects around the world are building into the earth, merging man-made forms with the contours of the land.The results are at once preternatural and breathtaking. From Zaha Hadid's Tram Terminal in France to Antoine Predock's Spencer Theater in the United States, over fifty projects expose the breadth and depth of this new direction in architecture.Aaron Betsky first considers our historical preoccupation with communing with the land through building. He then explores the ways in which geotecture responds to, becomes a part of, and yet remains distinctive within our natural landscape. With the subtext of our planet's power and beauty, Landscrapers reveals some of the most important, influential, and appealing building forms for today and the future. 367 illustrations, 290 in color.

Landscrapers: Building with the Land(Chinese Edition)

Explores the author's theory that male architects create structures of buildings and the layouts of cities, while women architects create interior spaces

Building Sex: Men, Women, Architecture, and the Construction of Sexuality

Romance

Historical

Harper-perennial

False Flat documents the vitality of the current design scene in The Netherlands, one of today's most important centers of innovation and experimentation in architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and graphic design. Contemporary Dutch designers artfully recast and reinterpret known forms and modernist archetypes through technological know-how, creativity, and wit. The authors compare this transformation to the "false flat" of the subtly sloping Dutch landscape - the product of centuries of reclaiming territory from the waters of the North Sea and the Rhine. Written by Aaron Betsky with Adam Eeuwens, and designed by acclaimed Dutch graphic artist Irma Boom, False Flat brings to life the dynamism, diversity, and underlying structures of a unique and prolific design culture.

False Flat: Why Dutch Design is so Good

Adam Eeuwens

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

Don't Build, Rebuild

Random House Publishing Services

Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd

One hundred chairs, couches, other seating furniture, and objects from what is perhaps the most important and comprehensive collection of modernist furniture in priate hands have been newly photographed in color for this lavish book. Accompanying an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this bok spans the 20th century as it showcases the work of modern masters ranging from Peter Behrens, Otto wagner, and Gerrit Rietveld, throug LeCorbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, to Wendell Castle, Donald Judd, and Marco Zanuso.Sitting on the Edge will delight and inform design professionals as well as anyone with a passion for style.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Rizzoli

Among the most talked-about names in contemporary architecture, the firm of Diller + Scofidio has for the last two decades redefined what architecture can be. Through site-specific, highly conceptual works such as the acclaimed redesign of the famed Brasserie restaurant in New York City's Seagram Building, to the "Blur" building, created for the Swiss Expo 2002 and composed entirely of mist, the firm has consistently challenged and expanded the role of architecture and design in our technology-oriented environment. 
In this first-ever comprehensive survey of the work of this internationally recognized firm, published to accompany a traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 10 of Diller + Scofidio's most important site-specific pieces are examined, along with several of the artifacts they have created in order to examine issues of gender, surveillance, place, and travel. With essays by respected scholars and a contribution by contemporary artist Laurie Anderson, this fully illustrated volume offers a compelling look at the work of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio.

Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio

Laurie Anderson

K. Michael Hays

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART.

Oversize book detailing the contruction of the new de Young Museum in Golden Gate Parl, San Francisco. 200 photographs, 191 in color. Includes essays on the history of the de Young, designing the museum, its construction and interviews with Walter Hood and Jacques Herzog.

The de Young in the 21st century: a museum by Herzog & de Meuron

Michael R. Corbett

For architects, the challenge of the future will increasingly lie in creatively coming to terms with hybrid environments, understanding and exploiting the design potential of digital spaces within the physical world, and re-defining the role of architecture within a visually dominated culture. This volume presents a valuable and attractive contribution to the contemporary discussion on this subject.

Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum

Weibel, Peter

David DEUTSCH

Jeffrey Shaw

Peter Zoller

Flachbart, Georg

Ole Bouman

Elizabeth Diller/Ricardo Scofidio

Monika Fleischmann/Wolfgang Strauss

Sulan Kolatan/William Mac Donald

William J. Mitchell

Kas Oosterhuis

Hani Rashid

Peter Weibel

Birkhäuser Architecture

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