architecture now 2 - Hardcover

Jodidio, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3822815942 ISBN 13: 9783822815946

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2002

Synopsis

Jodidio, Philip

About this title

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)

About the Author:

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard University, and was editor-in-chief of the leading French art journal Connaissance des Arts for over two decades. He has published numerous articles and books on contemporary architecture, including TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, and Alvaro Siza.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3822815942
• ISBN 13: 9783822815946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576