Contemporary public space : un-volumetric architecture / [edited by] Aldo Aymonino, Valerio Paolo Mosco.
Publisher: Milano, Italy : New York, NY : Skira ; Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 393 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm001: 14957767ISBN: 9788876242731; 8876242732Subject(s): Public spaces -- Design | Space (Architecture)
| Urban landscape architectureLOC classification: NA9053.S6 | C664 2006Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 711.1 AYM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 22/04/2024 | 114463 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Critic James Wines notes, "The topic of this book, 'un-volumetric architecture' is the search for creative alternatives to the overly volumetric 'shape making' obsessions of international architecture today . . ." Here are over 50 important experimental contemporary designs for public spaces sited throughout the world-earthworks and surface design, canopies and shelters, and other forms of "micro-architecture." As a theory un-volumetric architecture attracted designers including the Acconci studio, Shigeru Ban, Eduard Bru, Manuel de Sola Morales, Isamo Nougichi, Toyo Ito, Wes Jones, Kengo Kuma, Torres & La Pena, Mary Miss, N! Studio, NL architects, Oma, Site, Italo Rota, Sauerbruch & Hutton, and Venturi Scott Brown.
Surfaces / Enrico Morteo -- Vertical / Wes Jones -- Enclosures / Alberto Ferlenga -- Design / Ilhyun Kim -- Shelters / Kengo Kuma -- Environment / Juan Purcell F. -- Earthworks / Bernardo Secchi -- Figures / Pippo Ciorra -- Technology /Arie Graafland -- Events / James Wines.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. 9)
- Introduction: More space, less volume: a story in movement (p. 15)
- Surfaces (p. 25)
- Architecture & Volume (working on the intermediate scale) (p. 55)
- Vertical (p. 63)
- Un-volumetric architecture and the emergence of the architectural (p. 95)
- Enclosures (p. 103)
- Inconsistent Vernaculars (p. 137)
- Design (p. 141)
- Reality and Architecture: Totality and Dissolution of the Object (p. 159)
- Shelters (p. 167)
- From volumes to holes (p. 207)
- Environment (p. 211)
- Un-Volumetric architecture in the Ciudad abierta (p. 247)
- Earthworks (p. 253)
- Land Design 2 (p. 287)
- Figures (p. 293)
- From propylea to clouds (p. 315)
- Technology (p. 323)
- Un-Volumetric Architecture (p. 355)
- Events (p. 361)
- "Un-Volumetric Architecture" Some notes on a new critical fulcrum (p. 387)
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