Tuesday, 28 February 2006 | Senay
Architecture Now! 4
Architecture Now! 4
Jodidio, Philip
Flexicover, 19.6 x 24.9 cm (7.7 x 9.8 in.), 576 pages
Architecture Now Volume 3 was the winner of the prestigious Saint-Etienne Prize for the Best Architecture and Design Book of 2004.
Volume 4 proves that the best keeps getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses.
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 Philip Jodidio:
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, including TASCHEN's Architecture Now series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, and Renzo Piano.
Editions:
English | French |German: ISBN 3-8228-3989-2 (March 2006)
Italian | Spanish | Portuguese: ISBN 3-8228-3990-6 (June 2006)
Architecture Now! 4: http://www.dexigner.com/directory/detail/7271/
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