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Alfredo Arribas : Marugame Hirai Museum (Opus, 20)
- Alfredo Arribas first attracted international attention in the eighties, at the end of the Franco era, a time of new beginnings and regained freedom in Spain in the fields of architecture and design as well. At that time many young Spanish artists started their career by designing bars, which Arribas once called "the new temples of our day". This offered the possibility of unusual spatial solutions, architectural quotations and the skilful use of lighting effects to draw on an abundant source and thus open up new expressive possibilities for architecture.
In the meantime Arribas has also been able to realize a number of larger projects, including designing the opening ceremony for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, certainly a highly unusual commission for an architect. One of Arribas's most interesting pieces of work outside his Spanish home is the Marugame Hirai Museum presented here, which houses an important collection of contemporary Spanish art.
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Alte Volklinger Hutte (Opus, Vol. 28)
- UNESCO has made the Volklinger Hutte a World Cultural Heritage Monument. Thus a piece of 19th century German industrial plant is placed along-side the Pyramids of Giza, Charlemagne's cathedral in Aachen and the Taj Mahal. Something that seems to be a homogeneous series -- the World Cultural Heritage Monuments -- has acquired a new dimension with the addition of the Volklingen coal and steel conglomerate. In the field of monument protection, memory has hitherto been equated wih preservation, but what preservation meant under the conditions of decay of all human works was scarcely discussed. Here the Volklinger Hutte, with its drastically abbreviated half-life period and the rapid change of all conditions brings a new dimension. The thing protected is for once not an object, but a process. It raises the question what events are under conditions of wear, and who is being remembered .... The plant can stand as technological evidence of the inventive spirit of the 19th-century period of rapid industrial expansion, for the division of labour and the jobs of a generation that still has members living in Volklingen, of a war machine, or a landmark in the Saar loop ....
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Building the Getty
- One of America's most eminent architects tells us what it was like to undertake the architectural commission of the century: the building of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Writing with wit and passion and in engrossing detail, Richard Meier takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.
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California Aerospace Museum
- by Frank Gehry, James Steele (Photographer), Dennis Sharp
The Canadian Museum of Civilization
- by George F. MacDonald, Stephen Alsford, Malak (Photographer)
The Castle : An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building
- by Cynthia R. Field, Richard E. Stamm (Contributor), Heather P. Ewing (Contributor)
Creating the South Carolina State House
- by John Morrill Bryan
Die Halle = Hall 26 = Il Padiglione : Fur Die = for the = Per LA Deutsche Messe Ag Hannover
- by Thomas Herzog (Editor)
Educational Facilities : New Concepts in Architecture & Design (New Concepts in Architecture & Design.)
- by Publications Editorial Mersei
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Ernst Gisel, Rathaus Fellbach (Opus, 19)
- Not just a winner, but a major winner. And Fellbach won it by letting Zurich architect Ernst Gisel build its new town hall.
Ernst Gisel's town hall for Fellbach is one of the very few buildings that make one enthuse about the town. Like Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie it invites you to linger -- even without a reason: in the Stuttgart museum you are attracted by terraces, ramps and an open rotunda, whereas in the Feltbach building there is a sense of a strong suction that will draw the public into the inner courtyard of the complex. "A bit Italian" -- this is what Gisel himself says about the atmosphere there, and he is right.
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The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Halfway between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, on axis with the Washington Monument, the stone walls of the stunning new FDR Memorial rise behind the cherry trees. This book--written by the world-renowned architect who designed the structure--tells the complete story of this remarkable memorial, 20 years in the making. This stunning book will be the perfect visitor's memento and tribute to FDR and his era. Over 60 color and 70 b&w images .
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Glasgow School of Art : Charles Rennie MacKintosh (Architecture in Detail)
- by James MacAulay
Glyndebourne : Building a Vision
- by Marcus Binney (Contributor), Rosy Runciman, Colin Amery
Grand Central Terminal : Warren and Wetmore (The Architecture in Detail Series)
- by Kenneth Powell, Charles Wetmore, Whitney Warren
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Kazuo Shinohara : Centennial Hall, Tokyo (Opus, Vol. 27)
- Shinohara, arguably Japan's most original architect, was born in 1925 and comes from a mathematical background. He was trained at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the national polytechnic university (resembling ETH in Zurich); he also taught in the Department of Engineering for some thirty years. One of the substantial figures of late twentieth-century design, he possesses the sensibility of both a Voysey and a Lautreamont.
Well known for his residential work, Shinohara has more recently turned his hand to larger buildings, notably the Centennial Hall of Tokyo Institute of Technology, which serves as a club and meeting facility for the alumni and faculty. A work of imposing appearance, Centennial Hall has nonetheless mystified many Japanese observers, who see in it a giant robotic figure towering over the urban landscape. While notions of technology are certainly implied in the design -- the structure could not have been calculated without a computerized matrix of 3180 simultaneous equations -- nothing was farther from the architect's intention than a simple High-Tech emblem, or popular icon.
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Leicester University Engineering Building : James Stirling and James Gowan (Architecture in Detail)
- by John McKean
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The Library of Congress : The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building
- A handsomely illustrated tribute to the Library of Congress building, published to coincide with its 100th anniversary, this volume includes essays about the structure's planning and construction and a discussion regarding its decorations, paintings, and sculptures. The book concludes with a study of the building's restoration. Chronology
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Log Id : Bgw Dresden (Opus (Edition Axel Menges), 30)
- when planning the district headquarters for the Berufsgenossenschaft Gesundheitsdienst und Wohlfahrtspflege (Professional Association for Health and Welfare) in Dresden the aim was to produce an economical, environment-friendly building with a high proportion of solar heating and workplaces designed ergonomically and with an eye to health requirements.
The main architectural features of the building are a glass wall running the full length of the south side, large glazed areas on the east and west sides and solid walls enclosing the building on the east, west and north sides. The curved roof opens to the south, thus establishing the building's relation to the sun. The building is conceived in such a way that the solar energy is used first and foremost passively via the building's outer sheath. Special glass converts light into warmth even when light radiation is diffuse
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The Louvre : An Architectural History
- by Genevieve Bresc Bautier, Keiichi Tahara (Photographer), Genevieve Bresc
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Making a Modern Classic : The Architecture of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Architecture, art history, and city politics come together in this lively account of the evolution of the building that houses the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The story spans the decades of planning and construction that preceded the 1928 opening of the "wonderful Greek garage" on Fairmount through the reinstallation projects of the 1990s. The text is richly documented by both archival photographs and superb new color photog-raphy.
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The Mary Rose Museum (Center for Environmental Structure, Vol 8)
- A renowned architect offers an original, innovative vision for a museum to house Henry VIII's great warship, the Mary Rose, that combines respect for nature and the past with the architecture and technology of the future.
Modernism at Mid-Century : The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy
- by Robert Bruegmann (Editor)
Munster City Library : Architekturburo Bolles-Wilson + Partner (Architecture in Detail)
- by Francisco Sanin
The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (Architecture in Detail Series)
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Neue Messe Leipzig/New Trade Fair Leipzig
- This book focuses on the newly completed trade fair hall in Leipzig. Both in terms of architecture and urban design, the new industrial exhibition hall in Leipzig, rebuilt in connection with the overall reconstruction program for East Germany, stands as one of the most significant pieces of architecture anywhere today. At the heart of its concept lies the desire to achieve an artful synthesis of allied disciplines: urban building, landscape design, garden architecture, architecture, civil engineering and the fine arts.
In an international competition the design by Volkwin Marg topped entries by Gnther Behnish, Richard Rogers, Rem Koolhaas and others. The von Gerkan, Marg and Partners concept sees the New Leipzig Fair as part of a cohesive urban agglomerate which can serve as a framework allowing for consistent, uninterrupted development of a "Single-mold Fair".The present work describes the creation of the new fair, retraces the design phases, and showcases the individual buildings. Ground plans, structural schemes and technical data add to the documentation. Volkwin Marg sheds light on his "insider" intentions and noted expert issue "outsider" verdicts.
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The New Amsterdam : The Biography of a Broadway Theatre
- The world will be watching this fall when the famed New Amsterdam Theatre finally reopens its doors. The storied past and famous renaissance of this "jewel of 42nd Street" are captured in this elegant volume, featuring an elegant gatefold opening.
The New Architecture of Rail : Stations and Termini of Today
- by Marcus Binney
New National Gallery, Berlin (Architecture in Detail)
- by Maritz Vandenberg, Ludwing Mies Van Der Rohe
Palais Des Machines : Ferdinand Dutert (Architecture in Detail)
- by Stuart Durant, Ferdinand-Charles-Louis Dutert, Angus Low
Palau De LA Musica Catalana, Barcelona (Opus Series,8)
- by Lluis Domenech I. Montaner, Hisao Suzuki (Photographer), Manfred Sack
Richard Meier : Stadthaus Ulm (Opus Series , Vol 9)
- For over a hundred years Ulm suffered from a mistake made in 1878: the clearance of Munsterplatz. The aim of the Romantics was to create a magnificent view of the tallest church spire in the world (161 metres), on which they were working at the time. But their complete clearance produced a shapeless square, vast, desolate and empty, and outstanding architecture was needed to put this right as soon as possible. This was the start, as a specialist magazine reported, of an outrageous tragedy of failed competitions looking for ideas and architecture. It was not until the most recent attempt in 1986, when the best architects with experience of such problems were invited to participate, that success finally came.
Of course the Stadthaus and its architecture are a provocation - just as the late-Gothic and monumental Monster was for the Stadthaus architect. But precisely this was the point of this game that everyone was intended to win and no one was allowed to lose, not the Munster, not the Stadthaus, and not Munsterplatz either. It was clear to Richard Meier and all his supporters that the dignity of the famous and fanatically revered old building could be acknowledged only by architectural self-confidence and that the pointed-gabled triviality that the fifties and sixties had tolerated around the edges of the square would not attract anyone. And why should the citizens' secular building confront its surroundings more tentatively than the citizens' parish church? Meier had been concerned to recognize and redefine an order - and then to create a link between past and present, and while doing this to gain the timeless and topical elements of our culture. And there is no doubt that he succeeded in doing this.
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Sir Norman Foster and Partners : Commerzbank, Frankfurt Am Main (Opus (Axel Menges), 21)
- Norman Foster, one of the most consistent advocates of architecture based on modern technology, achieved a world-wide reputation with the headquarters for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong, Stansted Airport in London, Century Tower in Tokyo and his telecommunications tower in Barcelona. His most important projects in Germany are the conversion of the Reichstag building in Berlin and the new Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.
The Commerzbank building, situated in the middle of the city centre, promises to be an exceptional complex not only architecturally, but also in terms of energy consumption. The plan of the building, which, including the aerial, is almost 300 m high, is triangular in form with slightly concave sides. Within the transparent tower gardens totalling 3300 sqm are set aside in a spiral configuration, stepping up throughout the building as 14 m high climate buffers. The office floors are combined to create so-called villages; in conjunction with the gardens a central atrium, which is ca. 160 m high, brings daylight even to the offices in the centre. The balance of energy use achieved through most advanced operating systems will be much more environment-friendly than in other high-rise buildings. It can already be stated today that a landmark of contemporary architecture is in the making here, comparable in its historical significance only with the works of a Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Space Calculated in Seconds : The Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese
- by Marc Treib
Stadhuis/Bibliotheek : The City Hall/Library Complex by Richard Meier in the Hague
- by Richard Meier (Artist), Fred Feddes, Victor Freijser, Ed Melet (Photographer)
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Steidle + Partner, Universitat Ulm West (Opus, 25)
- Ulm University has an enviably beautiful site. It and a number of other research institutions have owned the whole of the Eselsberg, a hill to the north-west of the town, for a long time. Building has gone on there since the late sixties, and so it is easy to make out the architectural growth rings. It started with the great hunks of the concrete-happy age, after that there are clear signs of a search for structural elegance, but traditional brick was called upon as well. But the most abrupt change was brought about by Otto Steidle and his Munich office. A big surprise: the buildings are in wood, with glowing colours by Berlin artist Erich Wiesner -- "vibrating with the surroundings" --, in shades between blue and green, yellow and red.
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The Supreme Court of the United States
- This magnificent portrait of America's highest tribunal and its majestic building reveals the U.S. Supreme Court as never before. Granted unprecedented access to the rooms of the last major neoclassical building to be built in the nation's capital, renowned photographer Fred Maroon brings us 150 immortal images of architect Cass Gilbert's 1935 edifice. Suzy Maroon's fascinating and informative text provides the stories of the people and forces that shaped both the American justice system and the building that would become its symbol.
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Theaters & Halls : New Concepts in Architecture & Design
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Tschumi Le Fresnoy : Architecture In/Between
- by Bernard Tschumi (Editor), Bernard Tschum, jose Abram
A Workshop for Peace : Designing the United Nations Headquarters
- by George A. Dudley
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