Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture
150Edizione: IngleseDisponibilità: DisponibileQuesta collezione è uno sguardo al microscopio sui veri fondamenti dei nostri edifici, rivelando le tecniche di progettazione essenziali utilizzate da qualsiasi architetto, ovunque e in qualsiasi momento. Ideata da Rem Koolhaas e realizzata in collaborazione con la Harvard Graduate School of Design, è un kit di strumenti essenziali per comprendere come elementi apparentemente stabili siano in realtà in costante evoluzione.
Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture
150Derived, updated, and expanded from Koolhaas’s exhaustive and much-lauded exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, this is an essential toolkit to understanding the fundamentals that comprise structure around the globe. Designed by Irma Boom and based on research from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 2,600-page monograph contains essays from Rem Koolhaas, Stephan Trueby, James Westcott and Stephan Petermann; interviews with Werner Sobek and Tony Fadell (of Nest); and an exclusive photo essay by Wolfgang Tillmans.
In addition to comprehensively updated texts and new images, this edition is designed and produced to visually (and physically) embody the immense scope of its subject matter:
- Custom split-spine binding: our printer modified their industrial binding machine to allow for the flexible, eight-centimeter thick spine
- Contains a new introductory chapter with forewords, table of contents, and an index, located in the middle of the book (where it naturally opens due to its unique spine)
- Printed on 50g Opakal paper, allowing for the ideal level of opacity needed to realize Boom’s palimpsest-like design
- Translucent overlays and personal annotations by Koolhaas and Boom are woven in each chapter to create an alternative, faster route through the book
- Printed at the originally intended 100% size for full readability
L'autore
Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and scriptwriter before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York. His 1996 book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. Among many international awards, he has received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003).
Il designer
Irma Boom is a graphic designer specialized in making books. Since founding Irma Boom Office in 1990, she has worked with the likes of Chanel, the United Nations, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Fondazione Prada, Pirelli, and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. She received the Gutenberg Prize and the Johannes Vermeer Prize, the Dutch state prize for the arts, among others. Her work is in a permanent collection of the Design and Architecture Department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since 1992, Boom is a Senior Critic at Yale University in the USA.
Il fotografo
Wolfgang Tillmans è considerato uno degli artisti più influenti della sua generazione. La sua opera poliedrica - nature morte, ritratti, immagini astratte - copre varie tipologie di soggetti, in particolare movimenti politici, rappresentazioni fotografiche e subculture. Oggi le sue opere sono esposte in numerosi musei internazionali, tra cui il Museum of Modern Art e la Tate Modern. Inoltre, l’artista ha vinto numerosi premi, tra cui il Turner Prize nel 2000.
Koolhaas. Elements of Architecture
Copertina rigida, 20 x 25.5 cm, 3.55 kg, 2528 pagineISBN 978-3-8365-5614-9
Edizione: Inglese4.8