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Crossover
In this long-awaited follow-up to the enormously popular informal, designer, writer, and engineer Cecil Balmond invites readers into his creative process as he documents his most innovative projects in art, architecture, and bridge design. Hailed by friend and frequent collaborator Rem Koolhaas as having "almost single-handedly shifted the ground in engineering - and enabled architecture to be imagined differently," Cecil Balmond has achieved special status as a pioneer in cross-disciplinary thinking. Balmond's instinctual understanding and manipulation of forces has paved the way for generations of designers to break free from traditional systems of organization and embrace the non-linear. ...
Informal
Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to architecture. The plasticity of architectural plans is enhanced through a decisive promotion of their structural designs. The borderline between structure and architecture thus becomes increasingly blurred. This process is explained in detail in "Informal" by reference to eight seminal projects. Balmond elucidates the theoretical basis of his engineering and architectural solutions, and his sketches transcend purely technical illustration - they are key to his approach. "Informal" invites readers to rethink their understanding of the relationships between architecture, design and engineering.
Cecil Balmond
The reissue in Vintage Classics marks the 20th anniversary of first publication. At the heart of this novel lies the fictional village of Ulverton. It is the fixed point in a book that spans three hundred years. Different voices tell the story of Ulverton: one of Cromwell's soldiers staggers home to find his wife remarried and promptly disappears, an eighteenth century farmer carries on an affair with a maid under his wife's nose, a mother writes letters to her imprisoned son, a 1980s real estate company discover a soldier's skeleton, dated to the time of Cromwell. Told through diaries, sermons, letters, drunken pub conversations and film scripts this is a masterful novel that reconstructs the unrecorded history of England.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006
Five years ago, the Serpentine Gallery invited the world's leading innovative architects to create a pavilion, even an elegance or a folly, that represented the ethos of their work. This book looks at some of creations that resulted from the gallery's challenge.
ELEMENT
“My name is Emily Kat Jones and I am 'Element'. This is my story; about me and all the hardships, I went through as a kid to an adult.” Emily's life takes a turn when she acquires unknown power. But, she is not alone who has found these powers. Her very close friend Eli also gets a taste of them. Who is good and who is bad? Step into Emily's world and find out yourself!
Cosmograms
"Réalisé en collaboration avec Jean-Christophe Royoux, et basé sur une vingtaine d'entretiens réalisés spécialement pour cet ouvrage, le livre COSMOGRAMS est l'extension de SEVEN MINUTES BEFORE. Rejouant la structure du film (continuité simultanée, convergence), cette expérience rassemble divers propos autour de la notion d'"espace-monde" contemporain.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005
Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto De Móura: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005~ISBN 1-904563-48-1 U.S. $34.95 / Hardcover, 8 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / Illustrated throughout. ~Item / March / Architecture
Talking Architecture
Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, this revealing volume features interviews with twenty of the world's most influential living architects in which they discuss their accomplishments, challenges, inspriations, and dreams. What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions bettern than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of persepctives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in...
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Inside Outside
Petra Blaisse and her firm, Inside Outside, specialize in the rare combination of interior and landscape design, interweaving architecture and context. Interior projects use materials that introduce visual effects such as color, flexibility, seasonal change, and movement and solve acoustic, climatic, shading, and spatial issues. Landscape projects reflect a fascination with materials, light, and movement within an urban and infrastructural program. This approach brings forth a series of strong, multilayered garden and park designs that combine logistics with rich planting schemes and graphic effects. Inside Outside introduces the full range of Blaisse’s work, focusing on collaborations with internationally renowned architects including Rem Koolhaas and SANAA. It weaves together descriptions and documentation of more than fifty projects, a conversation with the designer, and essays by renowned writers and critics.
