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Perspecta, No 23
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Frank O. Gehry
Most recently, Gehry's work has experimented with complex forms and sculptural geometries and includes a group of significant cultural projects, including the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the American Center in Paris, and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota.
The American City
Contents: Toward an "Imperial City": Daniel H. Burnham and the City Beautiful Movement, Mario Manieri-Elia; From Parks to the Region: Progressive Ideology and the Reform of the American City, Francesco Dal Co; The City in Agrarian Ideology and Frank Lloyd Wright: Origins and Development of Broadacres, Giorgio Cuicci; The Disenchanted Mountain: The Skyscraper and the City, Manfredo Tafuri.
Modern Architecture
Photographs, plans, diagrams, and historical and critical commentaries review the architectural developments, styles, and monuments of India and Ceylon, Indochina and Indonesia, the Himalayan region, Central Asia, China, Korea, and Japan.
Tadao Ando
A complete catalogue of the work of the renowned Japanese architect.
Figures of Architecture and Thought
In four previously published (in Italian) essays, thematically interwoven, Dal Co (architecture, U. di Architettura in Venice) interprets a cultural milieu that gave birth to the modern movement in Germany and Europe. Includes a great variety of bandw illustrations, and an anthology of primary documents. Translated from the Italian. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Centre Pompidou
The design and history of Paris's iconic Centre Pompidou is explored in this absorbing and beautifully illustrated biography of a building.
Tadao Ando, 1995-2010
The work of Tadao Ando prompts us to reconsider the way in which we interpret the world around us, and our place within the cosmos and the fusion of order and chaos. Ando believes time and mechanics are inseparable from the manifestations of the natural world; and it is this idea that can be seen in Ando's liveliest works. The book contains a selection of his writings and an anthology of the most significant critical texts on his work published in Japan and the West. ILLUSTRATIONS 750 images *
The Guggenheim
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic. But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 years, Wright continuously clashed with his clients over the cost and the design, a conflic...
Katsura
This text presents a detailed history of Katsura, the 17th century Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan that is a pivotal work of Japanese Architecture, often described as the 'quintessence of Japanese taste'. It documents the palace in detail, combining photographs, detailed drawings, archival material and historical analysis.
