Renewing Architectural Typologies - Mosque, House, Library: Makram El Kadi, Hernan Diaz Alonso, and Aoc

Name: Renewing Architectural Typologies - Mosque, House, Library: Makram El Kadi, Hernan Diaz Alonso, and Aoc
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ISBN: 9780989331753

ISBN-10: 098933175X

ISBN-13: 9780989331753

Edition: 2013

Authors: Nina Rappaport, Leticia Wouk Almino De Souza

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This is the fifth book documenting the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship featuring the work of young architect-practitioners teaching in the advanced studios at Yale. The studios each explore new typologies and include the themes, "Once Upon A House," taught by Hernan Diaz Alonzo of the L.A. based architectural practice Xefirotarch, which examined the relationship of types versus species, where type is viewed as "categories of standardization, then species are malleable entities in constant metamorphosis." The brief called for a house to occupy a site in three acts by employing a cellular spatial logic. In subverting the typology of the house, the studio presents radical…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Actarbirkhauser
Binding: Paperback
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English