New organic architecture : the breaking wave / David Pearson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pearson, David, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Organic architecture.
• Nature (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

223 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]

Summary:

Architect David Pearson examines the tradition of curvilinear, asymmetrical architecture and gathers statements and examples of the work of contemporary architects from around the world that relate to forms in nature rather than to the stark geometry of the modern tradition in architecture.

Contents:

• Building as nature 10
• Continuous present 12
• Form follows flow 14
• Of the people 16
• Of the hill 18
• Of the materials 20
• Youthful and unexpected 22
• Living music 24
• Part 1 Sources and inspirations 26
• Roots and concepts 30
• Nature's forms 48
• Geometry 62
• Environment 70
• Part 2 Living organic architecture 80
• Fabrizio Carola 82
• Bart Prince 86
• Jacques Gillet 94
• Erik Asmussen 100
• Douglas Cardinal 104
• Gregory Burgess 110
• Sim Van der Ryn 114
• Eric Furnemont 118
• Daniel Liebermann 122
• Balkrishna Doshi 130
• Tadao Ando 136
• Drew and James Hubbell 138
• Vitor Ruivo Forte 142
• Renzo Piano 144
• Eisaku Ushida and Kathryn Findlay 148
• Mickey Muennig 152
• Peter Hubner 158
• Shoei Yoh 162
• Imre Makovecz 166
• John Watson 172
• Steven Johnson 176
• Koval 178
• Keith Struthers 180
• Eugene Tsui 182
• Nicholas Grimshaw 186
• Javier Senosiain 190
• Kendrick Bangs Kellogg 196
• Thomas Rau 202
• Arthur Dyson 206
• Philippe Samyn 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.

ISBN:

• 0520232887
• 0520232895

OCLC:

46448982