Practical Tables for Building Construction

Foster, Norman

McGraw=Hill

The third edition of this construction reference covers change orders and the use of computers in take-off and pricing methodology, and includes new forms, metrication, improved graphics, and updated calculations in tabular form. Covers estimating from the initial planning stage to the final price, and discusses excavation and site work, various materials, carpentry, alteration work, job overhead, subcontractor's bids, and pricing the estimate. Includes a separately bound booklet of working drawings. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Construction Estimates From Take-Off to Bid

Science & Math

Trauner, Theodore

Technology

Recounts the history of the Reichstag building in Berlin, describes its original appearance, and discusses its meaning in German history and its restoration in the 1990s.

Rebuilding the Reichstag

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Overlook Books

From his student days to the present, star architect Norman Foster (born 1935) has used drawing as an analytical and pedagogical tool, as a conduit for dialogue between eye and mind. Foster's earliest drawings for projects such as Creek Vean and Waterfront Housing are almost picturesque in their integration of building and landscape; in the 1970s, he uses drawing to devise and then explain such typological subversions as the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank headquarters. In the 1980s, Foster's sketches for Stanstead airport make plain his revolutionary effect on airport architecture, paving the way for a new generation of aerated terminals with luminous roofs; plans for the Carré d'Art in Nimes exemplify his reinvention of how we envision and construct heritage sites today. From buildings of the past two decades, highlights include a fantastic sequence of drawings for the Collserola Tower, glorious sketches of the Reichstag dome, the Millenium bridge, the library at Berlin's Free University, the Expressionist penumbras of Abu Dhabi's Masdar City and the Sierra Leone school, where scarcity of resources necessitated and produced great conceptual elegance and clarity. In this magnificently produced, slipcased and linen-bound two-volume collection, spanning a half-century of works across over 200 drawings, each of Norman Foster's projects is seen to command its own graphic style, and is narrated eloquently by the architect's pen.

Norman Foster: Drawings, 1958-2008

SUDJIC, DEYAN

Fernández-Galiano, Luis

Vital, Not

Individual Artists

Ivorypress

In 1933, the visionary architect, engineer and designer Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) built a car that was at that time the world's most fuel-efficient car. The Dymaxion Car ran on 35 miles per gallon, while every other car on the road struggled to manage half that amount; zeppelin-like in appearance, it was streamlined to minimize wind resistance and was capable of carrying six to eight passengers. Fuller designed two more Dymaxion Cars over the following year, though none of the three saw production. In his book Everything I Know (1975), Fuller remembered: "Many people said to me, after I built three of these cars, 'I'm sorry your car wasn't a success.' And I'd say 'What do you mean?' They said, 'Well you didn't get it into production.' I said, 'I wasn't going into business, I was producing a vehicle. And it was extremely successful. I learned an incredible amount.'" Today the Dymaxion Cars look dynamic, beautifully designed and several paradigm shifts ahead of their time, and Norman Foster has taken up their legacy with a new vehicle of his own. This monograph reconstructs the history of Fuller's first three models for the Dymaxion Car through detailed plans and archival photographs, and relates the production process of Dymaxion #4, a new prototype produced by Norman Foster, which was launched on the street in 2010.

Buckminster Fuller: Dymaxion Car

Engineering & Transportation

GLANCEY, JONATHAN

Automotive

Foster and Partners is one of the world''s le ading architectural firms. This monograph includes illustrat ions and photographs of projects undertaken by the company t hat range from light fittings and graphics to whole cityscap es. '

Norman Foster: Selected and Current Works of Foster and Partners (The Master Architect Series II)

Dobney, Stephen

Images

Der neue Reichstag.

JENKINS, DAVID

BUCHANAN, Peter

Baker, Frederick

Pawley, Martin

Vossenkuhl, Wilhelm

Engel, Helmut

Brockhaus, Mannheim

Aitor Ortiz's photographs of buildings such as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Norman Foster's viaduct in Millau use the most elementary sculptural qualities of their subject matter to create photographic abstractions. This volume is the first overview of the Spanish photographer's work to date.

Aitor Ortiz: Photographs 1995-2010

Roy, Michelle Marie

San Martín, Francisco Javier

Photography & Video

Hatje Cantz

Berlin is in the throes of a frenzied building boom to put the heart back into this cultural and political metropolis. At the centre of what will soon be Germany's new seat of government is Sir Norman Foster's revolutionary design for the lower house of the German Parliament, constructed within the shell of the world-famous Reichstag building.

The Reichstag: Sir Norman Foster's Parliament Building

Schulz, Bernhard

Prestel Pub

Now back in stock by popular demand, an invaluable guide to the work of one of the world’s leading architects. 
Long before terms such as "green" and "sustainability" became fashionable, Norman Foster was designing buildings that were environmentally sensitive and highly adaptable. Today, this Pritzker Prize-winning architect is famous for such monumental structures as Hong Kong’s new international airport, the rebuilding of the Reichstag in Berlin, and the Great Court at the British Museum in London. 
This survey of more than forty years of work demonstrates how, over a period of tremendous social and technological transformation, Foster and Partners continue to adhere to the themes and concerns that have always shaped their work. Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings, and featuring text by Norman Foster, this catalogue explores all aspects of the practice’s achievements as urban planners, architects, and industrial designers. In addition to airports, railway stations, bridges, museums, universities, offices and private houses, the book includes designs of telecommunications and energy infrastructures, street furniture and smaller household items. Together these works form a complex of intelligent, thoughtful, and visionary work by an ever-changing, yet consistently brilliant design team.

Foster Catalogue 2001

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