Architecture Now! 5 (English/French/German Edition) (English, German and French Edition)

Jodidio, Philip

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9783822818107: Architecture Now! 5 (English/French/German Edition) (English, German and French Edition)

Synopsis

La collection Architecture now! est un projet éditorial de longue durée qui présente l'oeuvre des architectes les plus novateurs et les plus influents de la planète. Cinquième paru en cinq ans, ce nouveau volume rassemble les travaux de grands noms du métier mais aussi de nouveaux venus. Et comme l'architecture ne s'arrête pas aux murs, le paysage y fait aussi son apparition. Les entrées classées par ordre alphabétiques comportent des projets en cours de réalisaton ou très récents, des biographies, les coordonnées des agences et leur site Internet.

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From the Publisher

Here are just a few of the projects that are featured in the new book:

· A shelter for the needy made out of sandbags · "Nomadic Museum" made by Shigeru Ban out of shipping containers · A tree house in Germany · Extraordinary museums that will never be built in Lausanne and Guadalajara · New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tuñón, or Richard Meier · BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid · Allianz Arena by Herzog & de Meuron · Wedding Chapel in Japan · Design hotels in Berlin and Saõ Paulo or Cerro Paranal, Chile · Library in Seattle by Rem Koolhaas/OMA · Houses in Mexico City, Saõ Paulo, Corsica, Hiroshima, or Great Mackerel Beach, Australia · Spoon des Neiges by Patrick Jouin · A tower that will grow like a tree in New York · With-it architects like David Adjaye, Caramel, Graftlab, Jakob +MacFarlane, Asymptote or Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis · Artists who take on architectural space like Frank Stella or Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art like Peter Eisenman · The E-House, architecture that is greener than green · From the Minimal (David Chipperfield and John Pawson) to the decidedly exotic (Longitude 131, Uluru-Kata National Park, Northern Territory, Australia)

About the Author

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard University, and was editor-in-chief of the leading French art journal Connaissance des Arts for over two decades. He has published numerous articles and books on contemporary architecture, including TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, and Alvaro Siza.

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ISBN 10:  3836536161 ISBN 13:  9783836536165
Publisher: TASCHEN, 2013
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