Concrete Architecture /anglais - Hardcover

CROFT CATHERINE

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856693643 ISBN 13: 9781856693646

Publisher: LAURENCE KING, 2005

Synopsis

After a long period of being synonymous with urban deprivation and dreary stained surfaces, concrete is is now chic. A favourite material of fashionable style magazines, it is becoming ubiquitous in shops, restaurants and even homes. Concrete is in fact a fabulous material, which can be used in a huge range of techniques and situations. Its colour, texture, and constituents vary, it may be cheaply mass produced, or meticulously crafted, and new developments and increased understanding of its possibilities are inspiring contemporary architects and designers. Concrete Architecture begins by asking questions like: What is concrete? What is its history? How is concrete used? The book goes on to look at recent architectural projects that use concrete for an enormous range of building types. All the examples chosen celebrate the intrinsic qualities of concrete and how they work to make the places in which we live, work, and play. A range of projects from around the world includes for example a private house in the Netherlands by UN Studio and Canary Wharf Underground Station in London by Foster and Partners.

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CONCRETE ARCHITECTURE LIST OF CONTENTS Introduction p.6 CHAPTER 1 HOME p.24 Bearth and DePlazes Family Home in Flasch SWITZERLAND Estudio Alberto Campo Baeza House, Sevilla de La Nueva SPAIN Naoko Hirakura Architect and Associates Tokiwadai House JAPAN Un Studio/Van Berkel and Bos Mobius House THE NETHERLANDS Kazuhiro Kojima/C+A Space Blocks, Kamishinjo JAPAN Atelier H25/Georges Sandweiler Loft in Sandweiler LUXEMBURG Donovan Hill C House, Brisbane AUSTRALIA William Russell Bacon Street House, London UK Jim Jennings Visiting Artists' Home USA David Hertz Tiltup Slab House USA OIKOS Peter Herrle and Werner Stoll House in Berlin GERMANY CHAPTER 2 WORK Consoni, Rorschach Primary School in Au SWITZERLAND Axel Schultes Architekten Federal Chancellery, Berlin GERMANY Foster and Partners Canary Wharf Station, London UK Kisho Kurokawa Ehime Art and Industry Museum JAPAN Morphosis Diamond Ranch High School, CA USA Miguel Roca School of Arts, Cordoba University ARGENTINA Bernard Tschumi Convention Centre, Rouen FRANCE Hild und K Architekten Paint House Kemeter, Eichstatt Sammeln Landshut GERMANY Herzog & de Meuron Laban Dance Centre, London UK Architectus Mathematics, statistics and Computing Building, Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Anin Jeromin Fitilidis & Partner Look-Up Office GERMANY Javier Garcia Solera Lecture Block 3, Alicante University SPAIN Drescher Kubina Architekten Haus der Architekten, Munich GERMANY Tadao Ando Teatro Armani, Milan ITALY CHAPTER 3 PLAY RCR Arquitectos Bathing Pavilion, Olot SPAIN Remi Marciano Ruffi Sports Complex, Marseilles FRANCE Sn0hetta Fishing Museum, Karmoy NORWAY Page and Park Loch Lomond Visitor Centre, Scotland UK Gigon and Guyer Oskar Reinhart Centre, SWITZERLAND Estudio Cano Lasso La Corna swimming pool SPAIN Tod Williams, Billie Tsien & Associates Museum of American Folk Art, NY USA Tadao Ando Pulitzer Art Collection, St Louis, USA Morger and Delago Art Museum, Vaduz LIECHTENSTEIN Schneider & Schumacher Innside Hotel, Dusseldorf GERMANY CHAPTER 4 LANDSCAPE Sancho-Madridejos Residence/Chapel and hunting pavilion, Ciudad Real SPAIN Rafael Moneo Los Angeles Cathedral USA Carlos Ferrater Barcelona Botantical Gardens SPAIN Allied Works Portland Oregon Maryhill Overlook USA BAAS Architecture Municipal Mortuary, Leon SPAIN Lapena and Torres External staircase, Toledo SPAIN Patel Taylor London Thames Barrier Visitor Centre UK Marco Ciarlo Extension of the cemetery at Borghetto, Santo Spirito ITALY Scott Tallon Walker Oulart Monument Co Wexford, 1999 IRELAND Notes p.230 Project credits p.231 Index p.233 Picture credits and acknowledgements p.240

About the Author

Catherine Croft is currently Director of the Twentieth Century Society and is a regular contributor to a number of architectural journals, including Building Design.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAURENCE KING
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856693643
• ISBN 13: 9781856693646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240