Talking Architecture: Interviews with Architects - Hardcover

Rauterberg, Hanno

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3791340131 ISBN 13: 9783791340135

Publisher: Prestel Pub, 2008

Synopsis

What makes an architect tick? What is the state ofarchitecture today? How do architects view each other swork? No one can answer these questions better than thepractitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures asCecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid,Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, andothers offer a wide-ranging assortment of perspectives oncontemporary architecture and the architects roles in shapingthe state of the art today. Each interview focuses on theunique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied byimages of their most important works. With a no-holds-barredapproach the author obtains interesting details about theirideas on architecture in general, from where they get theirinspiration, to what formative experiences led them to becomearchitects in the first place. Informative, accessible, andendlessly fascinating, this collection offers a chance tocompare, con

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, this revealing volume features interviews with twenty of the world's most influential living architects in which they discuss their accomplishments, challenges, inspriations, and dreams. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of persepctives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in shaping the state of art today.

About the Author:

Hanno Rauterberg is a journalist for the Die Zeit newspaper in Hamburg, Germany.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3791340131
• ISBN 13: 9783791340135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160