Reading Structures: 39 Projects and Built Works: 1983 - 2011
Language: English
Published by Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich, 2016
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- Hardcover
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Z : 376 pages, 840 illustrations - Guy Nordenson made his mark crafting and executing challenging structural design projects while intertwining the disciplines of science and art. Reading Structures: 39 Projects and Built Works presents thirty-nine complex architectural structures, both built and unbuilt, by the Princeton University professor and structural engineer. This body of work, developed with architects and artists, reveals Nordenson’s unique approach to a progressive collaborative process as both engineer and designer. The structures in this volume span twenty-eight years of creative work and are organized around three thematic sections: engineering ephemera, simply supported and building history. The monograph contains essays by Nordenson on said themes as well as his individual project descriptions chronicling the vision and challenges of each. Color photography, renderings and drawings illustrate the projects and their construction processes. Barry Bergdoll, architectural historian, curator and critic, provides an introduction.…
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- Title
- Reading Structures: 39 Projects and Built Works: 1983 - 2011
- Author
- Guy Nordenson
- Publisher
- Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3037784725
- ISBN 13
- 9783037784723
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 2,268 grams
- Dimensions
- 24.38 centimeters width by 30.48 centimeters height by 2.79 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- architecture, Architektur, Design, Monographie
This monograph presents 39 complex structures by the Princeton University professor and structural engineer Guy Nordenson. The body of work, developed with architects and artists including Raimund Abraham, Henry N. Cobb, Steven Holl, Michael Maltzan, Richard Meier, SANAA, and many others, reveals Nordenson’s unique contributions to a progressive collaborative design process as both engineer and designer. The structures in this volume span twenty-eight years, from his early work with Paul Weidlinger, to his formation of the New York office of Ove Arup & Partners, through the first 13 years since the 1998 establishment of his current independent practice, Guy Nordenson and Associates.The volume is organized around three thematic sections: Engineering Ephemera, Simply Supported, and Building History. It includes Nordenson’s essays on these themes, as well as his individual project descriptions chronicling the vision and challenges of each. Barry Bergdoll, architectural historian, curator, and critic, provides an introduction.
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Review
Civil Engineering, March 2016
"...The book delves into details without being dry or difficult to understand for the reader who doesn’t happen to be an engineer, or an architect, for that matter. Even for the lay person, Reading Structures offers incredible insight―from inspiration to design to politics―into how buildings, pavilions, parking garages, bridges, and follies get built, or don’t. And, maybe more important, how they stand up."
Architectural Record, August 2016
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