Guide to Ecstacity /anglais

Nigel Coates

ISBN 10: 185669383X / ISBN 13: 9781856693837

Published by Laurence King, 2003

About this Item

Abnutzung / Risse - leicht; Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. Monograph, manifesto, travelog, history, autobiography, novel--"A Guide to Ecstacity" is a bit of all of these things. The brainchild of British architectural visionary Nigel Coates, it asks us to reimagine the city as a dynamic hybrid of inventive design and cross-cultural political empowerment. Produced in the spirit of Rem Koolhaas's "S, M, L, XL," it is a palimpsest of the real and the hypothetical, with fragments of seven cities from around the world--Cairo, London, Mumbai, New York, Rio, Rome, and Tokyo--woven together into one multifaceted urban fabric. In addition to extensive documentation of architecture and product design by Coates's own groundbreaking firm--Branson Coates Architecture--"A Guide to Ecstacity" features projects by Norman Foster, Future Systems, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Philippe Starck, and Bernard Tschumi. Presented in a remarkable package created by the design firm Why Not Associates in close collaboration with Coates, these varied works form a fascinating kaleidoscope of metropolitan culture and suggest how the city of tomorrow might be transformed by a proactive architectural community that embraces the challenge of designing for a multicultural world.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guide to Ecstacity /anglais
• Publisher: Laurence King
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185669383X
• ISBN 13: 9781856693837
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The first ever book from celebrated architect Nigel Coates, this is a guide to his personal vision of a metropolis. He's called it Ecstacity. Ecstacity combines elements of Tokyo, Cairo, London, New York, Rome, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro to create a place of cultural clashes and hybrids. But it also includes inventions and fantasies. So the real and the imaginary sit side by side in a kaleidoscope of colour, drawings, maps, photographs and words. It has been a collaborative project with some of the biggest names around, including industry stars such as Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Gaetano Pesce and Ron Arad. There are also introductory texts and commentaries by writers such as Marcus Field and Brian Hatton along with an essay from the eminent historian Theodore Zeldin. Cult London graphic designers, Why Not Associates, have used of special materials and print processes to make the book an extraordinary object in its own right.

About the Author

Nigel Coates is one of the UK's most influential designers and architects. With Doug Branson, he founded Branson Coates Architecture in 1985 and in 1995 he was appointed Professor of Architectural Design at the Royal College of Art. One of his chairs, and several of his drawings are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.