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Birkhäuser Architectural Guides to 20th Century architecture France - Japan - Switzerland - Germany - Netherlands, Belgium - Luxembourg - Spain |
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Birkhäuser Architectural Guide France - 20th century In the 20th century, France has proved astonishingly fertile ground for modern architecture. The architectural ideas of Modernism and the Avantgarde are firmly rooted here and dominate the French architectural landscape unlike in any other country. Her architects are acclaimed throughout the world.
Paris, a centre for international architecture, rightly forms the focus of this guidebook with more than 100 notable buildings. However, this guide book also does justice to the entire country with altogether more than 450 buildings from all regions. The buildings are documented with photographs, drawings and texts, providing a comprehensive and portable guide. The author Betrand Lemoine, former chief editor of the architectural magazine AMC Le Moniteur, has published over 30 books and is an internationally renowned expert on French architecture.
Birkhäuser Architectural Guide Japan - 20th Century This book, like all volumes in the Birkhäuser Architectural Guide series, beginning with Germany by Nerdinger/Tafel, successfully represents all important developments of the 20th century. This includes work by the masters Kenzo Tange, Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando, the projects of younger architects such as Itsuko Hasegawa, Hiroshi Naito and Kazuo Shinohara as well the buildings designed by foreign architects such as Aldo Rossi, Cesar Pelli, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster.
Nearly 400 buildings are introduced in separate entries. The addresses locating each building and the weatherproof jacket make the book an indispensible companion for all travelers to Japan. It is also a valuable, and inexpensive reference guide by virtue of extensive indices and bibliographical information.
Birkhäuser Architectural Guide Switzerland - 20th century Organized by the cantons and half-cantons, the guide introduces more than 550 buildings in some 450 articles. Without over-emphasizing the present, the Ticino architecture of Mario Botta, Luigi Snozzi and Livio Vacchini as well as the Swiss-German architects Herzog & de Meuron, Diener & Diener and Peter Zumthor, are given ample consideration as are the new movements of the 1980s and 1990s, with buildings by Burkhalter & Sumi, Gigon & Guyer, DevanthŽry & Lamunire, among others.
Roman Hollenstein presents the most recent developments in an illustrated essay.
Birkhäuser Architectural Guide Germany - 20th Century For decades, no single volume on the market covered 20th century architecture for the whole of Germany. The present guide redresses this gap.
Special attention is devoted to key projects of the last years among them Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin and the much-praised Modern Art Gallery in Munich by Herzog & de Meuron. The result is an impressively comprehensive and yet highly current reference work. The wealth of examples and meticulous presentation prime this expansive survey to become a standard reference guide in the future. Done in cooperation with Architekturmuseum - Technische Universität München.
Birkhäuser Architectural Guide This Birkhäuser Architectural Guide offers a handy survey of the most important 20th century buildings in these countries. The authors Herman van Bergeijk and Otakar Macel have selected 550 buildings, including projects in urban areas, smaller towns, as well as in provincial regions. The projects are organized by provinces and towns and are listed with the precise addresses and detailed registers. The buildings are further described through photographs and architectural plans and sections in many cases.
NeMo - National Centre for Science and Technology. There have not been any 20th century architectural guides for either Belgium or Luxembourg despite their central European location and architectural significance. Belgium, with buildings by Victor Horta, Josef Hoffmann and Henry van de Velde, is the country of the Art Nouveau tradition, and is today again taking an independent direction with the buildings by Philippe Samyn and others. During the past 20 years, Luxembourg has become a country brimming with high-quality contemporary architecture, especially through international architects like Arquitectonica, Denys Lasdun, Gottfried Böhm and Richard Meier.
Birkhäuser Architectural Guide Spain 1920-1997 This guide describes more than 1.000 buildings in over 750 entries and surveys all of the important movements, from Modernism and the 1950s to Post-Modernism and the most recent developments. Notably the post-Franco period was characterized by a much-noticed boom in architecture. A picture thus emerges of all of the important Spanish architects, including Josep Llu’s Sert, Alejandro de la Sota, Rafael Moneo, Jos? Antonio Coderch, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, and many more. There are important representatives for each region, such as Casar Manrique for Lanzarote or Luis Pena Ganchegui for Basque, and outstanding engineers, such as Eduardo Torroja and, much later, Santiago Calatrava.
The most interesting contemporary architects are introduced, e.g., Esteve Bonell, Cruz/Ortiz, V‡squez Consuegra. And of course, the important examples of the work by foreign architects are not absent: the sensational MACBA implanted by Richard Meier into the densely developed old center of Barcelona; Alvaro Siza's Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela; and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
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June 9, 2003 |
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