Reflections on fragments, the unfinished, and the provisional in architecture from 1700 to 2005, published in honor of Robin Middleton.From the first treatise on architecture in antiquity, wholeness and finality were among the chief aspirations of architects, both in individual designs and in formulating a theory of architecture. But this ideal, honed and debated from the Renaissance, was shattered both deliberately and unavoidably in the modern era.In twenty-one essays ranging from the practices of the mid-eighteenth century to the contemporary work of Frank Gehry, the essays assembled here explore the architectural effects and the philosophical implications of fragmentation in architecture. The terrain ranges from the picturesque gardens of eighteenth-century England and France, via the town planning of the eighteenth, to Sir John Soane's interiors, to culminate in the work of several twentieth-century masters of the poetic fragment: Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn, and Frank Gehry.Authors who have contributed to this volume in honor of Robin Middleton on his retirement from Columbia University include Neil Levine, Peter Carl, Dalibor Vesely, John Dixon Hunt, David Watkin, Philippe Duboy, Eileen Harris, Sylvia Lavin, and Kenneth Frampton. 120 illustrations.

Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished: Essays Presented to Robin Middleton

Arts & Photography

Barry Bergdoll

Werner Oechslin

Architecture

Thames&Hudson

Photographs by Erich Lessing. Includes selective bibliography and index.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia

Rizzoli

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Quik Build:Adam Kalkin's ABC of Container Architecture

Alastair Gordon

William F. McLean

Kalkin, Adam

Bibliotheque McLean

Following the opening of The Met Breuer, this fascinating Bulletin contextualizes the architectural masterpiece now dedicated to displaying The Met's collection of modern and contemporary art. Designed by one of the twentieth century's most visionary architects, the Breuer building is a Brutalist icon and a work of art in its own right, known for its monumentality and stark purity of materials. Providing not just a history of the building commission, but also charting the artistic journey of Marcel Breuer from Bauhaus-educated furniture designer to world- renowned architect, this informative publication both records and contributes to the rich history surrounding Breuer and his landmark museum.

Marcel Breuer : Bauhaus tradition, Brutalist invention

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016

How might an architect design a building whose context hasn't yet been determined? Digital Media City is a new urban quarter in Seoul, zoned to grow up between the airport and the city center. But it's still on the drawing board: the site for the Barkow Leibinger project documented here was a lone parcel of land diagonally across from a new park. Given their uncertainty about neighboring structures, Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger equipped theirs with the ability to kaleidoscopically reflect its surroundings--whatever they turn out to be--in a dimensional, folded glass facade. Reflect documents the process of this building's design and construction through texts, photographs and video stills. Work was completed in late 2006; the result is a versatile face in the midst of facelessness.

Reflect: Barkow Leibinger Architects Building in the Digital Media City, Seoul, Korea

Reference

Brett Steele

Frank Barkow

Regine Leibinger

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hatje Cantz

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