Featherweights : light, mobile and floating architecture / Oliver Herwig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herwig, Oliver.

Series:

Architecture in focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lightweight construction.

Tensile architecture.

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Munich ; London : Prestel, 2003.

Summary:

From Bruno Taut's glass house to the Crystal Palace, geodesic domes to the Millennium Dome, this lavishly illustrated exploration of lightness in architecture explains how and why the movement began, and shows where it will take us in the future. Architecture has been moving towards lightness since the beginning of the twentieth century. As new building materials become available, and as land disappears, architects have focused on efficiency, impermanence and flexibility in structures. Illustrating the achievements of the most visionary architects of the past and present, Featherweights traces the evolution of lightness in architecture from the fantastic glass structures of the early twentieth century to the latest hi-tech materials for the third millennium. Covering everything from pre-fab houses to inflatable buildings, utopian architecture to virtual cities, this fascinating exploration illustrates the ongoing dialogue between shelter and society and offers exciting glimpses into a future in which gravity is optional.

Contents:

The Weight of the World or: The Invention of Lightness in Architecture Introduction 7

Five Pioneers of Light Architecture

Building with Light. Bruno Taut's Glass Fantasies 16

Light and Heavy. Eero Saarinen's Trans World Airlines Terminal in New York 26

Geometry: Go and No-Go. Richard Buckminster Fuller's Visions 36

Master of the Universe. Archigram's Pencil Revolution 46

Escaping from Slab Construction. Ulrich Muther's Shell Artworks 56

Looking Ahead. Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture

Lightweight Construction

In the Beginning was the Bubble. Frei Otto Moves into New Construction Territory 70

The Next Generation. Werner Sobek's Art of Archi-neering and His R 128 House 76

Membranes and Light Materials

The Mother of All Tents. Richard Rogers' Millennium Dome in London 82

Membranes Over Plush. Klaus Latuske's Musical Theatre in Hamburg for The Lion King 84

Two Extraordinary Travelling Exhibition Buildings. Andreas Heller's LiebesLeben and SehnSucht 88

Surfing the Wave. Benno Bauer's Culture Centre in Puchheim, Munich 91

Inflatable Architecture

There's Something in the Air. Axel Thallemer's Airtecture and Airquarium 96

Cool Britannia. Doug Branson's and Nigel Coates' Powerhouse::UK 100

Modern Nomads

Temporary Buildings for All Seasons. Shigeru Ban's Curtain Wall House in Tokyo, His Expo 2000 Pavilion in Hanover and His Emergency Accommodation for Kobe 104

Mobile Community Centre in No-Man's Land. Florian Nagler's Burgerhaus in Neuperlach, Munich 108

More Than a Container. Matthias Loebermann's Infobox in Nuremberg 110

A House on Wheels. Johannes Kaufmann's Su-Si 114

Broom Dome, Lounge Tube or Bamboo Cube. Moritz Hauschild's Summerhouse Projects 118

Building a World of Bits and Bytes

Place of Origin, the Computer. Zaha Hadid's Mind Zone in London 123

Following Lined Paths. Greg Lynn's Architectural Animations 126

The Influence of the Exhibition. Bernhard Franken's BMW Pavilion in Frankfurt 128

Fascinating Spatial Sculpture. Frank O. Gehry's Deutsche Genossenschafts Bank in Berlin 130

The Art of Reconstruction. Johannes Herold's Archivision Project 134

Looking for Lost Synagogues. Manfred Koob's and Marc Grellert's Virtual Reconstructions 136

Virtual Spaces. Florian Raff's Exhibition Design 138

Views of the Future of the City 1. Bill Wright's SimCity

Town Planning for All 140

Views of the Future of the City 2. Peter Haimerl's Zoomtown 142

Architecture in Space

Gracious Living in Space. Richard Horden's and Andreas Vogler's Space Design Project 146

Room With a View. Howard Wolff's Plans for a Space Hotel 150.

ISBN:

3791328565

OCLC:

51992039