O'Neil Ford Duograph 1, Chilé

O'Neil Ford Duograph 1, Chilé
Author: Smiljan Radic
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"Two masterpieces of architecture in Chile are presented in this first volume of the O'Neil Ford Duograph series: a house facing the Pacific Ocean on the spectacular Chilean coast and the new crypt for the Cathedral of Santiago de Chile - one a house for the living and one for the dead, both marking the cycle of life."--BOOK JACKET.

O'Neil Ford Duograph 2, Brazil

O'Neil Ford Duograph 2, Brazil
Author: Barbara Hoidn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Two residential buildings by these Brazilian architects are studied in depth in this volume. Invisible from the street, Angelo Bucci's house reveals itself in sequences until reaching the highest point and a 360-degree view. Carla Jua aba's vacation house in a remote, virgin forest is a small building of excetional beauty and elegence.

O'Neil Ford Duograph 3, Argentina

O'Neil Ford Duograph 3, Argentina
Author: Wilfried Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

With orthodox modernism's stricture on the use of pitched roofs and the subsequent loss of knowledge regarding the plastic-sculptural potential of a building, or more generally.

Form Follows Nature

Form Follows Nature
Author: Rudolf Finsterwalder
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3990437054

Nature is in many different ways a pool for the productive human being, but also a counterpoint to his/her own work. This book offers a richly illustrated overview of the history of nature in architecture, civil engineering and art.

The Architecture of Full-Scale Mock-Ups

The Architecture of Full-Scale Mock-Ups
Author: Nick Gelpi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2020-02-26
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317487273

The Architecture of Full-Scale Mock-Ups looks at the theory and contemporary practice of creating full-scale architectural mock-ups. This book serves as an introduction to the various forms of full-scale mock-ups which occur today. To broaden the definition of mock-ups, Nick Gelpi dives deep into the use of mock-ups in seven high-profile and global contemporary case studies. Instead of the presentation drawings and final building photos, the documentation of case studies relies on process photos, interviews, and moments of tension in the execution of each building. With never-before-published content, case studies include buildings from all over the world, including the Quincho Tia Coral and Teleton Building, Copper House II, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Cité de l’Océan et du Surf Museum, and more. Investigating unique case studies to answer how and when full-scale mock-ups occur today, this book is ideal for professionals and students of architecture studying materials and representation, design-build, and professional practice.

Bouça Residents' Association Housing

Bouça Residents' Association Housing
Author: Siza
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

From start to finish, it took the Modernist Portuguese architect lvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and designer of The Serpentine Gallery's 2005 Summer Pavilion, 33 years to construct the Bou a Residents' Association Housing in the northern city of Porto--which he realized in association with architect Ant nio Madureira. During those years, Siza completed numerous important commissions, including the architecture faculty building at the University of Porto in 1985 and the Funda o Serralves museum of contemporary art in that same city in 1999. In 1988 he restored the Chiado district of Lisbon, Portugal, after a devastating fire; and his Portuguese Pavilion for Lisbon's EXPO 98 was internationally recognized. While Siza was busy with all of these buildings and plans, the first phase of the Bou a project was falling ever deeper into disrepair, hampered by municipal neglect. It has since been brought up to Siza's standards, and this publication appraises the project, now happily completed. Siza's sketches, many of which are published here for the first time, reveal the tenacity of his search for the right solution.

Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza
Author: Rudolf Finsterwalder
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2015-08-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3990437070

Alvaro Siza gilt als einer der wichtigsten portugiesischen Architekten des 20.Jahrhunderts. 1992 erhielt er für sein Lebenswerk den Pritzker-Preis. Die Ausstellung in dem von Alvaro Siza gemeinsam mit Rudolf Finsterwalder errichteten Architekturmuseum auf der Museumsinsel Hombroich zeigt die Denk- und Arbeitsweise Sizas in bisher wenig bekannte Skizzen, Modellen und Fotografien. Der begleitende Katalog ist einfach, aber bibliophil gestaltet und offeriert Kennern neue Einblicke in Sizas Werk.

Take One Building : Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives of the Seattle Central Library

Take One Building : Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives of the Seattle Central Library
Author: Ruth Conroy Dalton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2016-11-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317114647

This book evaluates how we experience and understand buildings in different ways depending upon our academic and professional background. With reference to Rem Koolhaas' Seattle Central Library, the book illustrates a range of different methods available through its application to the building. By seeing such a variety of different research methods applied to one setting, it provides the opportunity for researchers to understand how tools can highlight various aspects of a building and how those different methods can augment, or complement, each other. Unique to this book are contributions from internationally renowned academics from fields including architecture, ethnography, architectural criticism, phenomenology, sociology, environmental psychology and cognitive science, all of which are united by a single, real-world application, the Seattle Central Library. This book will be of interest to architects and students of architecture as well as disciplines such as ethnography, sociology, environmental psychology, and cognitive science that have an interest in applying research methods to the built environment.

Modern Architecture in Latin America

Modern Architecture in Latin America
Author: Luis E. Carranza
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0292768184

Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language. Runner-up, University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, 2015 Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to country, but, as a whole, the region produced a significant body of architecture that has never before been presented in a single volume in any language. Modern Architecture in Latin America is the first comprehensive history of this important production. Designed as a survey and focused on key examples/paradigms arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this volume covers a myriad of countries; historical, social, and political conditions; and projects/developments that range from small houses to urban plans to architectural movements. The book is structured so that it can be read in a variety of ways—as a historically developed narrative of modern architecture in Latin America, as a country-specific chronology, or as a treatment of traditions centered on issues of art, technology, or utopia. This structure allows readers to see the development of multiple and parallel branches/historical strands of architecture and, at times, their interconnections across countries. The authors provide a critical evaluation of the movements presented in relationship to their overall goals and architectural transformations.