Kohn Pedersen Fox: Architecture and Urbanism, 1993-2002 - Hardcover

Luna, Ian; Powell, Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084782506X ISBN 13: 9780847825066

Publisher: Rizzoli, 2003

Synopsis

This is the third monograph from Rizzoli to feature the highly esteemed architecture of Kohn Pedersen Fox. Headquartered in New York and London, KPF initially distinguished itself through its dedicated attention to the development of the most characteristic and significant American building type, the skyscraper. KPF has since achieved international stature with their brand of refined modernism. Among the recent projects included in this monograph are: the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Baruch College in New York City, the Gannett/USA Today Building in McLean, Virginia and the Rodin Museum in Seoul, Korea. These projects–as well as others in Tokyo, Warsaw, Honolulu, Taiwan, Buenos Aires, Singapore, and The Netherlands–are brought together in over 500 stunning full color photographs and 250 architectural drawings.

The structures themselves—the overwhelming majority of which are shown finished—are renowned for their exploration and continuation of the legacy of modern architecture. The sleek, cutting-edge buildings represent the firm's diverse designs for institutional, academic, and corporate clients around the world. As befits their skyscraper-architect reputation, KPF has designed what will be, upon completion in Shanghai, the world's tallest building.

About this title

About the Author

Ian Luna is an architectural writer and lives in New York City.

Kenneth Powell is a contributor to numerous architectural journals and is the author of Rizzoli's Architecture Reborn as well as definitive studies on the work of Sir Norman Foster and Richard Rogers.

Joseph Giovannini is a nationally known architectural writer and former critic for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He has contributed to many architecture books, including Rizzoli's previous monograph on Kohn Pedersen Fox.

Carol Herselle Krinsky is Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, New York University. A past president of the Society of Architectural, she is the author of five books, including Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Rockefeller Center.

From Publishers Weekly

The too-often faceless glass-and-steel postmodern architecture dominating the world’s big cities is creatively manipulated by "KFP," which builds big, but which finds ways to incorporate a harmonious fluidity and strikingly holistic concept of building into its mostly corporate projects, which include the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C., the IBM World Headquarters in Armonk, New York and the Shanghai World Financial Center, which, when completed in 2005, is set to be the tallest building in the world. This book documents 60 of the firm’s projects from the last 10 years, and it is impressive, both in form and content. Three short essays give the history of the firm (which was founded in 1976) and describe some of its advances in design and engineering. Following that, each project appears chronologically, introduced by a few paragraphs detailing the building’s site and the building itself, with a photo of the project (if presently completed) on the facing page. A few pages of drawings come after, with more photos of the building, in situ and in use, rounding things out. The photos are shot from revealing angles and flattering lights, and are crisply printed, and the layout is thoughtful and unobstrusive. This is the kind of book that could easily be presented to clients who are thinking of spending hundreds of millions of dollars, as it probably will be.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 084782506X
• ISBN 13: 9780847825066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512