Cool construction / Raymund Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, Raymund.

Series:

4 x 4 (Series)

4 x 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Summary:

Cool Construction examines four architects in whose work the tactility of craftsmanship and the luminosity of understatement are combined and refined to an unprecedented degree. Although the architects - David Chipperfield (London), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisbon) and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (New York) - are based in very different cultures, their architecture exhibits a rare vision of purity and serenity that is independent of time and place. From Chipperfield's sensitive reinterpretations of historical forms to the exquisite restraint in Kishi's breathtaking work, from Souto de Moura's robust but elemental use of the vernacular to Williams and Tsien's planar experimentation, each finds maximum expression through the ingenious use of materials and the rigorous manipulation of form. Against the excesses of postmodernism, cool construction is an architecture that is finely honed and carefully wrought, resonant and sublime.

Contents:

4.10 David Chipperfield 24

4.11 River and Rowing Museum 32

4.12 House in Germany 38

4.13 Neues Museum 42

4.14 Extension to San Michele Cemetery 46

4.20 Waro Kishi 48

4.21 Murasakino Wakuden Restaurant 56

4.22 Memorial Hall, Yamaguchi University 60

4.23 House in Higashi-Osaka 64

4.24 Roswell Hotel 68

4.30 Eduardo Souto de Moura 72

4.31 Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro 80

4.32 Rua do Teatro Apartments 86

4.33 Courtyard Housing 90

4.34 Burgo Tower 94

4.40 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien 96

4.41 Neurosciences Institute 104

4.42 Freeman Silverman House 110

4.43 Cranbrook Natatorium 114

4.44 Museum of American Folk Art 118.

Notes:

"With 284 illustrations, 124 in color."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0500282676

OCLC:

48807388