Architecture Now!

Jodidio, Philip (ed.)

ISBN 10: 3822825077 / ISBN 13: 9783822825075

Published by Taschen, Koln, 2002

About this Item

192 pages, illustrated, (Icons).

Seller Inventory # 167795

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architecture Now!
• Publisher: Taschen, Koln
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3822825077
• ISBN 13: 9783822825075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This volume presents the best of architecture in the world from 100 contemporary architects.

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)