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Coop Himmelb(l)au
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Covering + Exposing
Since 1968, Coop Himmelblau has been practicing a form of architecture which provocatively breaks away from traditional structures to expose inherent tensions. The principles of deconstructivism can be seen in many of their most famous buildings and projects: the seminal Falkestrasse roof extension in Vienna, the east wing of the museum in Groningen, the JVC New Urban Entertainment Centre in Mexico, the spectacular UFA cinema centre in Dresden and the SEG residential tower in Vienna. Their work has been the subject of international exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, and in 1996 they represented Austria in the Venice Biennale.
Coop Himmelb(l)au
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Coop Himmelb(l)au
"Coop Himmelb(l)au's psychogram technique began as a technique to free architecture from cliches, a renunciation of design methods seen by Prix and Swiczinsky to serve discredited institutions and authorities. By forcing themselves out of their own comfort levels with building, they learned how to amplify the dynamic tensions of a space,"--P. 47.
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Coope Himmelblau is a multi award-winning cooperative architectural design firm located in Vienna, with offices in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, Mexico. This book looks at the company's most notable buildings.
Coop Himmelb(l)au
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How to Architect
The basics of the profession and practice of architecture, presented in illustrated A-Z form. The word "architect" is a noun, but Doug Patt uses it as a verb—coining a term and making a point about using parts of speech and parts of buildings in new ways. Changing the function of a word, or a room, can produce surprise and meaning. In How to Architect, Patt—an architect and the creator of a series of wildly popular online videos about architecture—presents the basics of architecture in A-Z form, starting with "A is for Asymmetry" (as seen in Chartres Cathedral and Frank Gehry), detouring through "N is for Narrative," and ending with "Z is for Zeal" (a quality that successful architects...
