New Forms (Taschen's World Architecture) - Hardcover

Jodidio, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3822885797 ISBN 13: 9783822885796

Publisher: TASCHEN, 1997

Synopsis

Near Fine Hardcover Text/BRAND NEW. Boards/trace push to lower front left corner. DJ/NF. Review of fundamental changes in architecture in response to technological progress, ecological concerns, and economics. 6 chapters w/some 250 collor illustrations, detailed plans, biographies of architects: 1, Introduction: New Geometries; 2, Urban Stategies: Transport, Communications, Tall Buildings & the Urban Nomad; 3, Space for Art: A New Generation of Museums; 4, Place of Gathering: Congress, Worship, Sport & Study; 5, Art & Architecture: Breaking Down the Barriers; and, 6, Outlook: Shape of the Future. Fine copy

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These two volumes address topics in the earliest and latest periods covered in the publisher's ambitious and almost global (Africa is regrettably not included) 40-volume "World Architecture" series. While Wildung's volume is a fundamental analysis of the ancient Egyptian building arts, Jodidio's book is more of a journalistic review of contemporary trends. After an introductory chapter that presents an architectural vocabulary, Wildung, curator of the Egyptian Museum, Berlin, surveys his topic chronologically from the early dynastic through the Roman periods. Serviceably translated from the German, his prose eschews academic language. Perhaps of the greatest value are the color photographs and the numerous plans and sections. Two indexes cover personal names and monuments, arranged by locality. By contrast, American Jodidio (Richard Meier, Taschen, 1995) arranges his book by building type and offers an innovative chapter on the intersection of art and architecture. Jodidio's introduction provides an overview of the period and useful definitions of postmodernism and deconstructivism. The selection criteria are unclear, however, with practitioners such as Josef Paul Kleihues and Michael Graves curiously absent. The text is a general discussion of design trends rather than an analysis of building form and content. Unfortunately, the index includes personal names only, though the biographies are helpful. In neither volume does the text refer to the illustrations. Nevertheless, the high quality of the graphic material makes these very sound investments for all architecture collections.?Paul Glassman, Pratt Inst. Lib., New York
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Edition details

• Publisher: TASCHEN
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3822885797
• ISBN 13: 9783822885796
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240