Contemporary Public Space Un-Volumetric Architecture

Name: Contemporary Public Space Un-Volumetric Architecture
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ISBN: 9788876242731

ISBN-10: 8876242732

ISBN-13: 9788876242731

Edition: 2005

Authors: Aldo Aymonino, Valerio Paolo Mosco, James Wines, Wes Jones, Denise Scott Brown

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Critic James Wines notes, "The topic of this book, 'un-volumetric architecture' is the search for creative alternatives to the overly volumetric 'shape making' obsessions of international architecture today . . ." Here are over 50 important experimental contemporary designs for public spaces sited throughout the world-earthworks and surface design, canopies and shelters, and other forms of "micro-architecture." As a theory un-volumetric architecture attracted designers including the Acconci studio, Shigeru Ban, Eduard Bru, Manuel de Sola Morales, Isamo Nougichi, Toyo Ito, Wes Jones, Kengo Kuma, Torres & La Pena, Mary Miss, N! Studio, NL architects, Oma, Site, Italo Rota, Sauerbruch &…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Skira Editore
Publication date: 4/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 8.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction: More space, less volume: a story in movement



Surfaces


Architecture & Volume (working on the intermediate scale)



Vertical


Un-volumetric architecture and the emergence of the architectural



Enclosures


Inconsistent Vernaculars



Design


Reality and Architecture: Totality and Dissolution of the Object



Shelters


From volumes to holes



Environment


Un-Volumetric architecture in the Ciudad abierta



Earthworks


Land Design 2



Figures


From propylea to clouds



Technology


Un-Volumetric Architecture



Events


"Un-Volumetric Architecture" Some notes on a new critical fulcrum