Material transfers : metaphor, craft, and place in contemporary architecture / Françoise Bollack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollack, Françoise Astorg, author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern.

Building materials.

Physical Description:

175 pages : color illustration ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, 2020.

Summary:

Architect, architectural historian and preservationist Françoise Bollack explores the use of traditional materials with contemporary forms and the corollary of contemporary materials applied to traditional forms and the blurring of the boundary between the two. Nineteen projects in the US, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand are examined. Among the featured architects are Kengo Kuma, architect of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium, MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch firm, and Lacaton & Vassal of Paris.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Remembered Forms New Materials

Santa Maria Novella

Greek Revival

Carpenter Gothic

Cast Iron

Old Forms New Materials

The Dairy House

Memu Meadows Experimental House

Trollbeads House

Cantzheim Vineyard Orangerie and Guest House

16 West 21st Street New York

Basilica di Rete Metallica di Siponto

New Forms Old Materials

Garden Building College of St. Hilda's Oxford University

Dominus Winery

Retreat Center for the Brothers of Tilburg

Wadden Sea Center

Mimesis In Defense of Imitation

Hotel and Youth Hostel

Frac

The Granary

Glass Farm

Crystal Houses

53 Great Suffolk Street London

85 Rue Championnet, Paris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical information (pages 172-173).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781580935432

1580935435

OCLC:

1141904598

Publisher Number:

99988611460