A Life In Architecture
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Author | : Deyan Sudjic |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2010-09-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1468302760 |
The author of The Language of Things “takes readers on an engrossing tour of Foster’s life” from childhood to the world-renowned buildings he designed (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A leading pioneer of high-tech architecture, Norman Foster has worked across the globe, collaborating with luminaries such as R. Buckminster Fuller to Steve Jobs. Born in Manchester, England, Foster grew up in poverty, the son of a machine painter. He served in the Royal Air Force and worked in a local architect’s office before returning to school for architecture. Foster went on to design the Reichstag, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks headquarters in London and China, the new Wembley stadium and the British Museum's new court. He is also responsible for the design of Beijing's new airport, the Rossiya tower in Moscow, one of the towers at Ground Zero in Manhattan, as well as numerous other buildings around the world. In this insightful biography, Deyan Sudjic charts Foster’s remarkable life and career.
Author | : Carter Wiseman |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2007-02-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780393731651 |
The first in-depth biographical study of the brilliant but elusive architect who fundamentally redefined twentieth-century architecture. Now ranked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe, Louis I. Kahn brought a reverence for history back into modern architecture while translating it into a uniquely contemporary idiom. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with colleagues, coworkers, clients, and family members and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, this book documents the uniquely American rise of a poor immigrant to the pinnacle of the international architectural world. It illuminates the richly diverse personal relationships Kahn had with such clients as Jonas Salk and Paul Mellon, and the romantic entanglements that mystified even those closest to him. While celebrating the genius of Kahnís art, the book provides an invaluable portrait of the man who created it.
Author | : Carter Wiseman |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0813947502 |
The man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Bangladesh, Louis Kahn was born in what is now Estonia, immigrated to America, and became one of the towering figures in his adopted country’s built world. His works are unmistakable in their elegance, monolithic power, and architectural honesty. Written by Carter Wiseman, one of Kahn’s most respected commentators, this book offers a succinct, accessible examination of the life and work of one of America’s greatest architects. It traces the influence of his immigrant origins, his upbringing in poverty, his education, the impact of the Great Depression, and the arrival of Modernism on his life and work. Finally, it provides insight into why, as the legacy of many of his contemporaries has receded in importance, Kahn’s has remained so durably influential. Louis Kahn: A Life in Architecture provides the best concise introduction available to this singular life and achievement.
Author | : Lawrence Rinder |
Publisher | : University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This exhibition catalog accompanies the inaugural exhibition at the new UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific FIlm Archive building, designed by Diller Scofido + Renfro. Over 150 works of art in a wide range of media, as well as scientific illustrations and architectural drawings and models, explore the ways that architecture--as concept, metaphor, and practice--illuminates various aspects of life experience.
Author | : Howard Davis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136619100 |
The shop/house – the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings – appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive account of this common but overlooked building. The merchant's house in northern European cities, the Asian shophouse, the apartment building on New York avenues, typical apartment buildings in Rome and in Paris – this variety of shop/houses along with the commonality of attributes that form them, mean that the hybrid phenomenon is as much a social and economic one as it is an architectural one. Professionals, city officials and developers are taking a new look at buildings that allow for higher densities and mixed-use. Describing exemplary contemporary projects and issues pertaining to their implementation as well as the background, cultural variety and urban attributes, this book will benefit designers dealing with mixed-use buildings as well as academics and students.
Author | : Howard Colvin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780300050981 |
The Pyramids and the Taj Mahal are witness to the extravagant architectural tributes that, throughout human history, the great and the wealthy have paid to their dead. In this book, a well-known architectural historian provides a history of funerary architecture in western Europe from the earliest megalithic tombs of prehistory to the establishment of public cemeteries in the nineteenth century. With sensitivity and wit, Howard Colvin traces the ways in which these structures represent changing ideas about the after-life as well as changes in architectural style.
Author | : HENRY N. COBB |
Publisher | : The Monacelli Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1580935141 |
The first book dedicated to the career of the preeminent American architect, Henry N. Cobb. As a builder, teacher, and mentor, Henry N. Cobb has been one of the most eloquent voices in architecture for well over half a century. A founding partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, where he has worked actively and continuously since its inception in 1955, his practice encompasses a wide variety of building types, with projects across the world that resound in the public imagination. Cobb's sensitivity to place and use generate surprising and unparalleled forms in educational and civic buildings--such as the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston, and Palazzo Lombardia in Milan--or in corporate and commercial projects, such as the John Hancock Tower in Boston, Fountain Place Tower in Dallas, Tour EDF at La Défense in Paris, and Four Seasons Hotel and Residences at One Dalton, now under construction in Boston. Henry N. Cobb: Words & Works 1948-2018 is his first book, uniquely combining poetic analyses of his distinguished works with essays and lectures that cover topics about architecture's past, present, and future. His voice is complemented by interviews and discussions with Michael Graves, Robert A.M. Stern, Hal Foster, Charles Gwathmey, Paolo Conrad Bercah, Cynthia Davidson, Peter Eisenman, Mark Pasnik, and John Hejduk. Handsomely designed by OverUnder, this book is packaged in a portable size evocative of the Library of America series. A longtime educator--and chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1980 to 1985--Cobb takes up his extensive subject matter in a thoughtful and engaging manner. To anyone interested in the development of American architecture in its transition from modernism to postmodernism and into the era of high-tech starchitecture, there are a number of treasures here to discover. Henry N. Cobb is a landmark survey--in words and works--of one of the great architects of our time.
Author | : Robert McCarter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Architects |
ISBN | : 9780500343319 |
An inspiring monograph that captures the practical yet beautiful architecture of one of the leading architectural firms in the world
Author | : The School of Life |
Publisher | : School of Life Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781912891306 |
Children are rarely introduced properly to architecture, but there are in fact few subjects more important – because the quality of the architecture that surrounds us has such an impact on our mood and sense of well-being. The bitter truth is that in modern times, we’ve built a world that’s far too often ugly or uncharming – and we’ve done so because only a very few people ever feel they have the right to comment on what gets built around them. This is a chance for the next generation to develop the tools to talk about architecture with confidence, knowledge and passion. It tells us about what a satisfying building is, what makes a street enticing (or not), why some cities are charming and others repel us – and how we might build going forward in a way that will reliably delight and uplift us. This engaging and beautifully illustrated guide is designed to help children (and their favourite adults) to understand how buildings work and how we might create the better looking world we all crave and deserve.
Author | : Sven Ehmann |
Publisher | : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9783899554144 |
This book offers a collection of architecture and interiors that support progressive models of acquiring knowledge. It features new interpretations of kindergartens, schools, universities, libraries and educational centres, along with architecturally innovative offices, conference rooms and laboratories.