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Contemporary Concrete Buildings

Copertina rigida5.5 x 7.7 in.2.39 lb632 pagine25Edizione: Francese, Inglese, Tedesco Disponibilità: Disponibile
Once synonymous with eyesore highway bridges and crumbling, unloved walls, concrete has been reborn as adventurous and sexy. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition considers the elaborate feats and prodigious engineering of contemporary concrete architecture, from stars such as Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron, to fresh new studios like the Russian SPEECH.
Contemporary Concrete Buildings

Contemporary Concrete Buildings

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Concrete Heights

The most exciting projects behind the contemporary concrete trend

Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances, and, when properly handled, is one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture. A kind of “liquid stone” at the outset, it is malleable, durable, and capable of prodigious feats of engineering.

This Bibliotheca Universalis edition highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years. It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Steven Holl, but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and artists such as James Turrell, who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces.
L'autore

Philip Jodidio ha studiato Storia dell’arte ed Economia ad Harvard e per più di vent’anni è stato curatore della rivista d’arte francese Connaissance des Arts. Tra i suoi libri si annoverano
la serie Architecture Now! di TASCHEN e monografie su Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid e, presto, Norman Foster.

Contemporary Concrete Buildings
Copertina rigida14 x 19.5 cm1.08 kg632 pagine

ISBN 978-3-8365-6493-9

Edizione: Francese, Inglese, Tedesco