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Plottegg : architecture beyond inclusion and identity is exclusion and difference from art : the work of Manfred Wolff-Plottegg
Plottegg ist einer der profiliertesten Avantgarde-Architekten Österreichs. Als Pionier setzt er den Computer seit den 1980er Jahren ein. Die Verwendung als elektronisches Reißbrett ist ihm zu wenig, Programme sollen Lösungen generieren. Die für diese Publikation ausgewählten Werke repräsentieren in Folge daher weniger die Erfüllung von Bauaufgaben sondern eher Architekturkonzepte und Arbeitsweisen. Die Darstellung der Projekte im Buch beruht auf Bildern; Beschreibungen, Daten sowie Kommentare wurden auf das Geringstmögliche reduziert. Insofern versteht sich das Buch auch als visuelle Ergänzung seiner bisher erschienenen Texte. Diese erste Monographie gebauter und projektierter Architektur schließt eine Lücke in der Dokumentation innovativer österreichischer Architekten.
Plottegg is one of Austria's most high-profile avant-garde architects. He has been pioneering the use of the computer since the 1980s. However, using the technology purely as an electronic drawing board is not enough for him - programs are intended to generate solutions. The works selected for this publication therefore represent the architect's design concepts and working methods rather than solutions for building projects. The projects are primarily presented in the form of images; descriptions, data and comments have been reduced to the minimum possible. To that extent, this book is also a visual supplement to his essays published up to now. This first monograph on Plottegg's built and planned architecture closes a gap in the documentation of innovative Austrian architects.
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Obituary: Zaha Hadid 1950-2016
Givannini presents an obituary for architect, Zaha Hadid. Hadid was already a citizen of the world when she landed at the Architectural Association in 1972 at the age of 22. There her unusual talent quickly earned her the protective attention of director Alvin Boyarsky, while as taught by Leon Krier, and then Rem Koolhaas and Elia Lnghelis, who introduced her to the work of the Russian avant-garde and insightfully insisted that she learn how to draw.
Trade Publication Article
Irving Gill and the Architecture of Reform: A Study on Modernist Architectural Culture
Joseph Giovannini. NYTBR, Mar. 26, 2000: 24. \"[Thomas S. Hines] has banished [[Irving Gill]'s] obscurity in a model monograph.
Journal Article
GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE
The skin combines parametric geometry with traditional methods, such as the sand-casting of the main structural steel nodes, and it is vaulted off of a separate, interior volume of concrete that houses the opera theater. The sweeping staircases and scuipted terraces of the foyer in the main volume give way to the auditorium, where curving balconies - designed to fragment the sound acoustically and to assure sighi lines - emerge smoothly from walls, forming continuous surfaces within what Schumacher calls the \"balanced asymmetry\" of the auditorium.
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