Vitra Campus: Architecture Design Industry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3931936023 ISBN 13: 9783931936020

Publisher: Vitra Design Museum, 2014

Synopsis

Since the 1980s, the Vitra company has erected buildings on its grounds in collaboration with some of the leading architects of the present day, including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw and Herzog & de Meuron. This has resulted in a unique architectural ensemble, about which the architectural critic Philip Johnson wrote: “Since the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart in 1927, there has not been a gathering in a single place of a group of buildings designed by the most distinguished architects in the Western world.” The Vitra Campus currently attracts over 330,000 annual visitors. While the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron provides the opportunity to experience furniture classics and new products from the Vitra Home Collection, the renowned Vitra Design Museum by Frank Gehry presents alternating exhibitions, which are accompanied by numerous events and workshops. Further attractions on the Vitra Campus include a museum shop, a café and guided architectural tours of the buildings on the Campus. With roughly 300 illustrations, Vitra Campus offers an overview of Vitra architecture, its daily use, the development of the Campus and biographies of the architects. It is ideally suited as a souvenir, as preparation for a visit, as a Campus guide, or simply as interesting reading on some of the most significant architects and buildings of our time.

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Review:

On its bucolic campus in Germany, Vitra boasts buildings designed by some of the world's most distinguished architects, including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, SANAA, Alvaro Siza Vieira, Nicholas Grimshaw and Herzog & de Meuron. With roughly 300 illustrations, this new tome offers an overview of the architecture that defines this unique campus, as well as biographies of the architects who created it. (Noelle Lacombe CULTURED)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vitra Design Museum
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3931936023
• ISBN 13: 9783931936020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Kries Mateo