Building upon building / edited by J. Engels & M. Grootveld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engels, J. (Jantje), editor.

Grootveld, M. (Marius), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern.

Buildings--Repair and reconstruction.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

203 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Rotterdam, Netherlands] : Nai010 Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

In Building Upon Building, 45 contemporary European architects, including Stephen Bates, Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven, Monadnock, Dierendonckblancke and Humblé Martens, present their designs for a fictional expansion on an existing building, taking into account the design principles of the original structure.

Contents:

Preface : Building upon building / Jantje Engels & Marius Grootveld

1. Essays : The perceptive professional architecture as the art of seeing / Lara Schrijver

Highest fidelity / Christophe Van Gerrewey

The living historical city / Dorine van Hoogstraten

2. Projects : Hydra / Monadnock

Chandos house / Stephen Bates

Third apartment building, St. Alban Tal, Basel / Hugh Strange

An extension to Scuola Grande di San Marco / Mark Pimlott

Goethe's Gartenhaus / Dow Jones

Striping the block / Sub Office

Jacob's ladder house / Lü̈tjens Padmanabhan

St. James's place / Diederendirris

More not less! / Adam Khan

The view of the Maschinenmeister / Jules Schoonman

Picturesque ratio / Humblé Martens

Flatbuilding Westzeedijk / De Kort van Schaik

Linnaeus, competition for the extension to the Stockholm Public Library / Baukuh

Restoration / OMMX

"The jammed house in the corner pulls itself up by its own hair" / Nbundm

San Miniato al Monte / Veldwerk

Picnic cloth / East

Flirting with the past / re:architekti

In dialogue with Gion A. Caminada, common ground & distinction / Barnaby Hughes & Hamish Warren

Kaleidoscope / Studio Thys Vermeulen

Alienation & adaptation / Donna van Milligen Bielke

A sculptural colonnade / Anne Dessing

AEG am Humboldthain / Studio Ossidiana

Tow chapels / Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk

My house in the former farm Gut Garkau / Gunnar Daan

Apartment block Ippolito Nievo, 28 / Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin

O.M. Ungers perimeter block extension / AMUNT

Perspectives / Korth Tielens

Slight adjustments (to Maaskant) / Fischer Multerer

Merely an excavation of the buildings foundation / NU architectuuratelier

Sanderson house / David Kohn

A Dulwich double / Ryan W. Kennihan

'Das grüne Haus' by Albert Gessner, 1904 / Ties Linders

Celebrating 'The architecture of the banal' / Office Winhov

(fire) tower / Dierendonckblancke

T' Huis WC / BeL

Reflecting on Begraafplaats Zuiderhof / General Architecture

Enclosed gardens, a hidden public attraction / Bedaux de Brouwer

Data centre on Lexington Avenue / OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

"I never read The economist" / Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven

Reflections / Hans van der Heijden

All these facades: the city / De Vylder Vynck Tailleu

Inside out / Els Claessens & Tania Vandenbussche

Ringsiedling Siemensstadt / Robbrecht & Daem.

ISBN:

9462082847

9789462082847

OCLC:

936145226