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Architecture and beauty : conversations with architects about a troubled relationship / by Yael Reisner with Fleur Watson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextChichester : Wiley, 2010Description: 264 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780470997840 (hbk.)
  • 0470997842 (hbk.)
  • 9780470847923 (pbk.)
  • 0470847921 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 22 R.Y.A
LOC classification:
  • NA2500 .R42 2010
Contents:
Genesis of a troubled relationship -- Frank O Gehry -- Zvi Hecker -- Peter Cook -- Juhani Pallasmaa -- Lebbeus Woods -- Gaetano Pesce -- Wolf D Prix -- Thom Mayne -- Eric Owen Moss -- Will Alsop -- Zaha Hadid -- Odile Decq -- Mark Goulthorpe -- Greg Lynn -- Kol/Mac -- Hernan Diaz Alonso.
Summary: Beauty provides the dynamic catalyst for sixteen very charged and individual discussions about architecture and design. Based on a series of interviews by Yael Reisner, Architecture and Beauty has been developed into sixteen individual chapter/portraits, written up by Fleur Watson, that eloquently recount the thoughts of some of the world’s most creative designers. Each interviewee candidly expresses their beliefs and experiences and espouses their own distinctive position on aesthetics. Offering up rare and often highly personal insights into the minds of today’s most progressive and high-profile architects, the book is lusciously illustrated with the works that the architects discuss.
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Books Books Main library B9 Faculty of Engineering & Technology (Architectural) 720.1 R.Y.A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00009434

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259) and index.

Genesis of a troubled relationship -- Frank O Gehry -- Zvi Hecker -- Peter Cook -- Juhani Pallasmaa -- Lebbeus Woods -- Gaetano Pesce -- Wolf D Prix -- Thom Mayne -- Eric Owen Moss -- Will Alsop -- Zaha Hadid -- Odile Decq -- Mark Goulthorpe -- Greg Lynn -- Kol/Mac -- Hernan Diaz Alonso.

Beauty provides the dynamic catalyst for sixteen very charged and individual discussions about architecture and design. Based on a series of interviews by Yael Reisner, Architecture and Beauty has been developed into sixteen individual chapter/portraits, written up by Fleur Watson, that eloquently recount the thoughts of some of the world’s most creative designers. Each interviewee candidly expresses their beliefs and experiences and espouses their own distinctive position on aesthetics. Offering up rare and often highly personal insights into the minds of today’s most progressive and high-profile architects, the book is lusciously illustrated with the works that the architects discuss.

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