Festival Architecture Rome (Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture)

Arts & Photography

Oechslin, Werner

Architecture

Cambridge University Press

Contemporary architectural theory emphasizes the importance of "tectonics," the term used to articulate the relationship among construction, structure, and architectural expression. Yet, little consideration has been given to the term's origins or historical significance. In this study, Oechslin examines the attempts by early Modern theoreticians of architecture to grapple with the relationship between appearance and essence. He locates the culmination of this search for "truth" in architectural expression in the work of Adolf Loos and the writings of theorists such as Bötticher, Le Corbusier, and Lux.

Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Light and shadow belong together. Yet the increasing number of artificial light sources on earth are resulting in continuously decreasing zones of shadow and darkness. In architecture, the growing use of glass and other translucent layers questions the very significance of shadows. Do they protect against or cause a loss of brightness? Do we even need shadows today at all? The Secret of the Shadow explores these "holes in the light" through perceptual psychology, historical accounts of their use in architectural teaching, and an overview of their role in classical modern architecture. Additionally, 50 "shadow seekers" from around the world, including Pritzker Prize-winning architects Tadao Ando and Sverre Fehn, contributed a work of their own that reveals the importance of shadows in contemporary architectural concepts.

The Secret of the Shadow: Light and Shadow in Architecture (Das Geheimnis Des Schattens: Licht und Schatten in der Architektur) (English and German Edition)

Libeskind, Daniel

Casati, Roberto

Fehn, Sverre

Goetz, Annina

Lellau, Dirk

Trummer, Peter

Wolf, Gerhard

Testa, Clorindo

Weinmiller, Gesine

Ando, Tadao Fehn, Sverre Wolf, Gerhard

Wasmuth

The ongoing paradigm change in regard to the use of energy, its efficient usage and the consumption of resources is giving rise to new light systems and lighting appliances. The goal of this book is to develop temporary light spaces that re-interpret the existing urban environment on a seasonal basis or over a cycle of several years. In addition to the presentation of light-planning examples in Paris, Shanghai, Helsinki, Mekka and Frankfurt am Main the book includes a number of essays, among them . »Light architecture« (Werner Oechslin), »In search of light« (Wolfgang Rang), »Light planning for cities in China« (Hao Luoxi), »City light. An instrument of urban planning« (Roger Narboni), »Borders, places, light« (Niels Gutschow), »Earth and spirit« (Wolfgang Rang).

CityLight

Gutschow, Niels

Narboni, Roger

Batz, Michael

Luoxi, Hao

Edition Axel Menges

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