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10 x 10 Editor: Vivian Constantinopoulos Publisher: Phaidon Press |
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10 x 10 is a unique document of current architecture: 10 architecture critics, curators, educators, writers and practising architects, have each singled out 10 of the most exceptional emerging architects practising today. Intended to be a truly global presentation, many of the architects have yet to gain recognition worldwide, while others include those who have achieved international acclaim for their work over the last five years.
"Souto de Moura seeks to create architecture without artifice, with the naturalness and ease found in vernacular architecture and traditional typologies.
"The work of Van Berkel and his collaborators are producing can be seen as both a renewed adherence to the spirit of modernity as well as a response to its failures. Van Berkel’s goal is to penetrate forms of objects and systems to understand the embedded meanings and often unseen mechanisms. His work assures that architecture can provide its own response to the next century."
"Shigeru Ban has developed new techniques and methods for constructing buildings out of paper tubes. His projects have explored the spatial, formal, haptic and functional qualities of these structures, as well as environmental aspects - tubes made from recycled paper as a response to damage caused by deforestation."
"Smith-Miller + Hawkinson is a firm dedicated to detail and poise. They do not make monumental form, nor do they have a system informing their every design decision. Not the definition of space, but the crafting of a posed artefact that weaves a new skin around the inhabitant of a space is the goal of this eminently Manhattanite firm."
"The work of Federico Soriano and Dolores Palacios is an ongoing reflection of contemporary phenomena which they set out to assimilate and redirect towards realization. One by one, the axioms of conventional architecture practice are dissected in a "multimedia" interpretation of architecture."
"The objective of architecture for five thousand years has been to expressively resist gravity. Denton, Corker Marshall attempts to go beyond this and push the limits of what architecture is - to the point where it becomes expressive not of programme and scale but of something else; it speaks of sculpture more than architecture and escapes, rather than defies, gravity."
"The work of the Mexican architects Enrique Norten and Bernardo Gómez-Pimienta stands out for its unconventional solutions. At the same time their work never ignores the need to respond to and enrich the urban surroundings.
"Engeleen Moore operates in the same tradition as the English minimalists; very white, very glass, very little else.
"Gigon and Guyer demonstrate that simple forms not only have their own restrained experimental pleasures, but that not all of architectural experience is necessarily visual. They also demonstrate that sensuality can be defined in terms that are disciplined, and calculated rather than, which is often the case, the opposite."
"Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk is an architect of rare sensitivity and inventiveness. His buildings are complex fusions of balances of reticence and expressiveness, clearly designed with passion, intense concentration and profound care - they are beautifully fabricated, often, or at least partly, by Hølmebakk’s own hands." 10 x10 is an invaluable resource and introduction to contemporary architecture. The varied approaches of the architects featured converge in an inspiring global overview, offering the reader new ways of considering our current and future built environment. A substantial, beautifully illustrated book. 10x10
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June 24, 2002 |
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