Discovering Architecture: How the World`s Great Buildings Were Designed and Built, Jodidio Philip, Dowling Elizabeth

Автор: Cairns Stephen, Jacobs Jane M.
Название: Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture
ISBN: 0262534711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262534710
Издательство: MIT Press
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Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.

Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have "life." And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what of the "death" of buildings? What of the decay, deterioration, and destruction to which they are inevitably subject? And what might such endings mean for architecture's sense of itself? In Buildings Must Die, Stephen Cairns and Jane Jacobs look awry at core architectural concerns. They examine spalling concrete and creeping rust, contemplate ruins old and new, and pick through the rubble of earthquake-shattered churches, imploded housing projects, and demolished Brutalist office buildings. Their investigation of the death of buildings reorders architectural notions of creativity, reshapes architecture's preoccupation with good form, loosens its vanities of durability, and expands its sense of value. It does so not to kill off architecture as we know it, but to rethink its agency and its capacity to make worlds differently.

Cairns and Jacobs offer an original contemplation of architecture that draws on theories of waste and value. Their richly illustrated case studies of building "deaths" include the planned and the unintended, the lamented and the celebrated. They take us from Moline to Christchurch, from London to Bangkok, from Tokyo to Paris. And they feature the work of such architects as Eero Saarinen, Carlo Scarpa, Cedric Price, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas and Francois Roche.

Buildings Must Die is both a memento mori for architecture and a call to to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.

Автор: Jones Will
Название: How to Read Modern Buildings: A Crash Course in Architecture of the Modern Era
ISBN: 0789332728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780789332721
Издательство: Rizzoli USA
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Название: Architecture 10: RIBA Buildings of the Year
ISBN: 1858945399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781858945392
Издательство: Merrell
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Описание: Showcasing new projects of all types worldwide by both established and emerging practices, Architecture 10 is essential reading for anyone interested in recent developments in contemporary architecture. This authoritative book is the official guide to the work of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and all RIBA Awards presented in 2010.The featured awards include the prestigious Stirling Prize, given to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution in the past year to the evolution of architecture and the built environment, and the Royal Gold Medal, conferred on a distinguished architect in recognition of a lifetime's work. Also included are reflections on 'A Year in Architecture' by the RIBA President, the RIBA International and Honorary Fellowships, the RIBA President's Medals Student Awards, and the Housing Design Awards.

Название: 101 Of The Worlds Tallest Buildings Hb
ISBN: 1864701730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781864701739
Издательство: Images
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Описание: Serves as a reference of the 101 world`s tallest skyscrapers, including photos, plans, details on architects, engineers and technical data on each building.