Alvaro Siza: City Sketches = Stadtskizzen = Desenhos Urbanos

Politics & Social Sciences

Wang, Wilfried

Social Sciences

Birkhauser

On the basis of their early small but dense buildings and projects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been recognized as architects searching for the essential grounds of tehir discipline. From tehir earliest designs of 1978, their work has sought to reconcile the role of architecture in the age of electronic media. With their current work in Switzerland and abroad, Herzog & de Meuron continue to combine architecture's primary physical dimension with its capacity to embody conceptual qualities. This first comprehensive monograph includes all the significant buildings and projects from the Photographic Studio Frei in Weil to the Signal Box in Basel and the Tate Gallery in London, with selected essays by architectural critics.

Herzog & De Meuron (Studio Paperback) (English and German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Artemis Verlag

This is the first of two volumes on the highly regarded practice Eric Parry Architects, covering their work from the 1980s to the present. Projects featured in volume 1 include uniquely sensitive vniversity buildings at Cambridge and Sussex; the Damai Suria housing complex in Kuala Lumpur; the romantic and picturesque Chateau de Paulin, France; and the infamous Ministry of Sound nightclub in London. Wilfried Wang, recently Director of the Frankfurt Architecture Museum, and currently a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard, considers EPA's importance within architectural discourse, examining their concern with materiality, attention to detail, craftsmanship and compositional structures. The book is prefaced by the internationally renowned architectural theoretician Dalibor Vesely.

Eric Parry Architects 1

Black Dog Publishing

This is the second volume on Eric Parry Architects, led by Eric Parry, Royal Academician and former tutor at the University of Cambridge, and covering the practice's work from 2002 to the present. Eric Parry Architects is an established and award-winning practice with a growing portfolio of notable work, varied in scope and scale. Projects include spaces for living, working, playing and learning. This volume includes projects such as the acclaimed Finsbury Square office building, the new home of the London Stock Exchange at Paternoster Square, the 20 storey office building on Aldermanbury Square in the City of London, the library and music school buildings for Bedford School, the gallery for Tim Taylor and the major refurbishment of St Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square. The book begins with a preface by Dalibor Vesely, distinguished architectural theoretician, before Wilfried Wang, O'Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin and practicing architect in Berlin, traces the refined compositional and historical sensibilities in the designs of Eric Parry Architects.

Eric Parry Architects Vol 2

Black Dog Press

This is the revised edition of the first volume on the highly regarded practice Eric Parry Architects, covering their work from the 1980s to the present. Projects featured in Volume 1 include uniquely sensitive university buildings at Cambridge and Sussex; the Damai Suria housing complex in Kuala Lumpur; the romantic and picturesque Chateau de Paulin, France; and the infamous Ministry of Sound night-club in London. Wilfried Wang, recently Director of the Frankfurt Architecture Museum, and currently a visiting critic at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard, considers EPA's importance within architectural discourse, examining their concerns with materiality, attention to detail, craftsmanship and compositional structures. The book is prefaced by the internationally renowned architectural theoretician Dalibor Vesely.

Eric Parry Architects Vol 1

Black Dog Architecture

Herzog & de Meuron (Studio Paperback) (German and English Edition)

On the basis of their early small but dense buildings and projects, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been recognized as architects searching for the essential grounds of tehir discipline. From tehir earliest designs of 1978, their work has sought to reconcile the role of architecture in the age of electronic media. With their current work in Switzerland and abroad, Herzog &amp; de Meuron continue to combine architecture's primary physical dimension with its capacity to embody conceptual qualities. This first comprehensive monograph includes all the significant buildings and projects from the Photographic Studio Frei in Weil to the Signal Box in Basel and the Tate Gallery in London, with selected essays by architectural critics.

Herzog & de Meuron (Studio Paperback) New and Revised Edition (German and English Edition)

This book, which is one of a series devoted to European building traditions, takes the reader to a Nordic land that has been a leader in architectural design throughout the 20th century, Finland. Beginning with its independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, Finland has carved out its national identity using a new language of form, provided by noteable designers like, Alvar Aalto.

20Th-Century Architecture: Finland

Norri, Marja-Riitta

Standertskjold, Elina

Prestel Pub

Architectural utopias of yesterday and today is the central theme of this well-illustrated foray into the political, technological, and aesthetic aspects of urban design. Carefully selected buildings clearly show how today's architects have confronted the utopian challenge. A detailed analysis shows the liberating power of contemporary architectural visionaries, complete with the full social and cultural context of their creations.

Architektur Jahrbuch/Architecture in Germany 2000 (Dam Yearbook) (English and German Edition)

Reference

Meseure, Anna

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts 2. Schenkungen und Akquisitionen 1995-1999.

Voigt, Wolfgang

Wasmuth

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