Building a New Millennium: Bauen Im Neuen Jahrtausend, Construire UN Nouveau Millenaire - Softcover

Jodidio, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3822863904 ISBN 13: 9783822863909

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 1999

Synopsis

The first in a series of bi-annual surveys of architectural practice, this text is a reference for those interested in late-20th century buildings and design. The work of 57 architects is represented with exhaustive photographs, pland and commentary on 83 buildings.

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Review:

The earth seems smaller after reading this ambitious book. Its aim: to present the world's most exciting new buildings as humanity enters the new millennium. The book illustrates and analyzes more than 80 projects by 50 well-known architects. While acknowledging the existence of local styles, Philip Jodidio--editor of a prestigious French art journal--emphasizes the global nature of architecture today. The selection of buildings here is truly multicultural, from the new Hong Kong airport and Kyoto's train station to daringly designed homes, schools, museums, even contrasting styles of crematoria (one each from Germany and Japan). With new "space age" materials and very large sums of public and private money, today's architects experiment in creating innovative spaces in which cultural, religious, and other more mundane events can be experienced. The buildings often seem ends in themselves: a $10 million museum in Seoul houses just two Rodin sculptures in a light-filled, inspirational environment; the Jewish Museum in Berlin deliberately opened empty, with no collection of any sort, the dark, jagged architecture sending its own message. The book's international flavor is enhanced by the practice of the publisher, Taschen, to offer text in three languages: English, German, and French. This presents design difficulties that are handled well, with text boxes, alternating triple columns, and restful light-blue "breathing spaces." Descriptions of the buildings are succinct and informative, the photographs of high quality. Building a New Millennium is a successful portrait of the state of architecture at this moment in our accelerating global culture. --John Stevenson

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 3822863904
• ISBN 13: 9783822863909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576