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Tom Kundig : works
\"In Tom Kundig: Works, the celebrated, Seattle-based architect presents eighteen new projects, from Hawaii to Whistler to New York City. Kundig's award-winning houses, known for their rugged yet elegant and welcoming style, are showcased in lush photography with drawings and sketches, and appear alongside commercial work--from multi-story complexes to the Tacoma Art Museum to a line of hardware (handles, door pulls, hinges, and more). In firsthand accounts, Kundig describes the projects and design process with many personal anecdotes. For the Rimrock Residence, located in Spokane, Washington, Kundig reflects on building in the majestic landscape of his hometown. He notes, \"In a sense, I was coming home to do it. The clients came to me specifically because they saw me as a local boy who did OK . . . Being on site resonated at a deep level. It was so utterly familiar.\" [In a way, the book feels like an alternative biography of the architect, told through the photographs and stories of the work itself.] The book also includes an essay by journalist Pilar Viladas and three revealing conversations with the architect and his frequent collaborators: gizmologist Phil Turner (the man behind the amazing gizmos featured in Kundig's work), contractor Jim Dow of Schuchart/Dow (master builder and craftsman responsible for many of the projects in these pages), and clients Shane Atchison and Jack Anderson\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Synthesis: Texte Und Collagen / Texts and Collages
Werner Blaser ist einer der renommiertesten Architekturpublizisten der letzten Jahrzehnte mit Kontakten zu nahezu allen wichtigen Architekten wie Mies, Foster, Piano oder Calatrava. In ,,Synthesis\" erzählt er nicht nur von seinen Begegnungen mit diesen und von seinen Erfahrungen mit ihrer Architektur. Er macht in Collagen auch gestalterische Zusammenhänge zwischen Ost und West, zwischen traditioneller und zeitgenössischer Architektur anschaulich.
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Key modern architects : 50 short histories of modern architecture
\"Combining the clarity and accessibility of a textbook with in-depth reading and a critical approach, Key Modern Architects provides an invaluable resource for both the classroom and for independent study in architectural and art history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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John Vassos
What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Vassos emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States in 1918. His career spans the evolution of central forms of mass media in the twentieth century and offers a template for understanding their success. This is Vassos's legacy-shaping the way we interact with our media technologies. Other industrial designers may be more celebrated, but none were more focused on making radio and television attractive and accessible to millions of Americans.
InJohn Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life,Danielle Shapiro is the first to examine the life and work of RCA's key consultant designer through the rise of radio and television and into the computer era. Vassos conceived a vision for the look of new technologies still with us today. A founder of the Industrial Designers Society of America, he was instrumental in the development of a self-conscious industrial design profession during the late 1920s and 1930s and into the postwar period. Drawing on unpublished records and correspondence, Shapiro creates a portrait of a designer whose early artistic work in books likePhobiaandContempocritiqued the commercialization of modern life but whose later design work sought to accommodate it.
Replete with rich behind-the-product stories of America's design culture in the 1930s through the 1950s, this volume also chronicles the emergence of what was to become the nation's largest media company and provides a fascinating glimpse into its early corporate culture. In our current era of watching TV on an iPod or a smartphone, Shapiro stimulates broad discussions of the meaning of technological design for mass media in daily life.
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You say to brick : the life of Louis Kahn
\"A definitive biography of the iconic American architect, Louis Kahn\"-- Provided by publisher.
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GRAFT - Home. Story
Gegründet 1998 in Los Angeles, ist Graft ein weltweit agierendes Architekturbüro, das Filialen in Berlin und Peking unterhält. Das Büro zeichnet sich durch seine experimentierfreudige Entwurfspraxis und seine futuristische Formensprache aus. Die Publikation dokumentiert Projekte aus den Bereichen des Wohnens – sei es dauerhaft, sei es temporär in einer Ferien- oder Arbeitsunterkunft. Monografie mit typologischem Schwerpunkt auf temporärem und stationärem Wohnen Dokumentation von etwa 50 großzügig illustrierten Projekten Mit einem Vorwort von Daniel Libeskind
Designing housing visions Founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, Graft is an international architectural firm with branch offices in Berlin and Beijing. The firm is renowned for its experimental design practice and futuristic design vocabulary. This publication documents projects in the residential realm – whether permanent or temporary, or for holiday or work. A monograph on housing typologies for long and short-term living Lavishly illustrated documentation of some 50 projects With a foreword by Daniel Libeskind
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Aesthetics and technology in building
\"Known for the \"soaring beauty\" of his designs and the buildings that realized them, Pier Nervi first made his reputation with the Municipal Stadium of Florence, Italy, and added to it with major structures that maximized open internal space, including arenas, field houses, airplane hangers, pavilions, and concert halls. Aesthetics and Technology in Building grew presents his ideas about architecture and engineering, heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings that show the design principles, means of construction, buildings under construction, and finished buildings. The new edition includes a preface, new introduction, and 4 new essays on Nervi, plus additional photographs of buildings he designed\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Clocks and clouds : the architecture of Escher GuneWardena
Das Büro Escher GuneWardena wurde 1996 in Los Angeles gegründet und hat sich seitdem in verschiedenen Bereichen international einen Namen gemacht: Geschäftsräume werden wie konzeptuelle Kunst behandelt; ihre Wohnhäuser am Hang wirken als poetische Antworten auf die örtlichen Bedingungen; und ihre denkmalgerechten Umbauten galten so sensiblen Ikonen der Moderne wie dem Haus Eames oder der Chemosphere von John Lautner, beide in Los Angeles. Die Zusammenarbeit mit Künstlern wie Sharon Lockhart, Mike Kelley und Stephen Prina bestätigt ihre Bedeutung in der Kunstwelt. Das Buch dokumentiert 28 ausgewählte Projekte, darunter auch Ausstellungsdesign und Kunstinstallationen.
Escher GuneWardena, founded in Los Angeles in 1996, reached international recognition through a range of projects: commercial spaces treated as conceptual art works; hillside residences representing poetic responses to particular site conditions; work in historic preservation including such icons as the Eames House and John Lautner's Chemosphere in Los Angeles. Their collaborations with artists such as Sharon Lockhart, Mike Kelley and Stephen Prina testify to their presence in the art world. \"[Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena] are, in part, scholars, artists, architectural historians, designers and architects\" Don Albrecht, Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of the City of New York.
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FXFOWLE : reveal, filter, evolve, effect
\"Monograph (in four volumes) on New York-based architecture firm FXFOWLE. Each of the four volumes is built around an individual theme: reveal (projects in the landscape), filter (interaction with culture/climate), evolve (adaptive reuse), and effect (buildings designed around a specific/unusual function). Each volume contains a short introduction from the firm, a critical essay by an outside writer, and comprehensive presentation of 4-5 projects. Heavily illustrated throughout\"-- Provided by publisher.
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