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The Sketchbooks of Nicholas Grimshaw
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

The Sketchbooks of Nicholas Grimshaw

This volume shows extracts from the various sketchbooks of Nicholas Grimshaw.

Grimshaw
  • Language: en

Grimshaw

KEYNOTE: This survey of one of the world's leading architecture firms celebrates three decades of design excellence, environmental sustainability, and architectural innovation, and explores some fascinating proposals for the future of the practice. In the areas of transportation, commercial, recreational, residential, and educational design, Grimshaw excels at delivering workable spaces that will serve its clients' needs for years to come. Among the many British projects featured in this book are the International Railway Terminal for Eurostar trains at Waterloo, the Eden Project in Cornwall, the Financial Times building in London Docklands, and the Regional Headquarters for the RAC at Brist...

British Pavilion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

British Pavilion

Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings. This work deals with the British Pavilion from the 1992 Seville Exposition, and includes a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details.

Equilibrium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Equilibrium

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-01-05
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  • Publisher: Phaidon

The work of the pioneering figure in British high-tech architecture.

Architecture, Industry and Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Architecture, Industry and Innovation

Nicholas Grimshaw is one of the pre-eminent figures of the British architectural scene, and is a leading light of the high-tech movement. The period 1965-1988 established his reputation worldwide as a master architect of great subtlety.

Archigram
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Archigram

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-06-24
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

The first book-length critical and historical account of an ultramodern architectural movement of the 1960s that advocated "living equipment" instead of buildings. In the 1960s, the architects of Britain's Archigram group and Archigram magazine turned away from conventional architecture to propose cities that move and houses worn like suits of clothes. In drawings inspired by pop art and psychedelia, architecture floated away, tethered by wires, gantries, tubes, and trucks. In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Simon Sadler argues that Archigram's sense of fun takes its place beside the other cultural agitants of the 1960s, originating attitudes and techniques that became standard...

Archi-TĂȘtes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 132

Archi-TĂȘtes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Louis Hellman's unique method of describing the work of an architect by drawing their head in the style of their building is known the world over. The drawings have been an enormous success, and have been converted into postcards, posters, and calendars, yet this is the first time they will be displayed in a book.

Architects for the New Millennium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Architects for the New Millennium

A celebration of architecture from around the world profiling todays leading firms. The top one hundred firms.

Architects Today
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Architects Today

This volume offers both an introduction to and an insight into key contemporary architects as well as giving a snapshot of the varied nature of architecture today. For each architect there are details of their life and work and illustrations of their most representative and iconic buildings.

Conceptual Structural Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

Conceptual Structural Design

This book aims to brige the gap between engineers' and architects' understanding of structural form. Its intention is to inspire the development of innovative and viable structures. It presents case studies where imaginative structural forms are in harmony with the architectural concept and at the same time present very efficient solutions to technical and structural problems.