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Architecture Now!
Architecture Now Vol. 4
Architects at the cutting edge Architecture Now Volume 3 was the winner of the prestigious Saint-Etienne Prize for the Best Architecture and Design Book of 2004. Volume 4 proves that the best keeps getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses. Here are just a few of the projects that are featured in the new book: ? A shelter for the needy made out of sandbags ? ?Nomadic Museum? made by Shigeru Ban out of shipping containers ? A tree house in Germany ? Extraordinary museums that will never be built in Lausanne and Guadalajara ? New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tu??n, or Richard Meier ? BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid ? Allianz Arena by Herzog & de Meuron ? Wedding Chapel in Japan ? Design hotels in Berlin and Sa? Paulo or Cerro Paranal, Chile ? Library in Seattle by Rem Koolhaas/OMA ? Houses in Mexico City, Sa? Paulo, Corsica, Hiroshima, or Great Mackerel Beach, Australia ? Spoon des Neiges by Patrick Jouin ? A tower that will grow like a tree in New York ? With-it architects like David Adjaye, Caramel, Graftlab, Jako ] +MacFarlane, Asymptote or Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis ? Artists who take on architectural space like Frank Stella or Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art like Peter Eisenman ? The E-House, architecture that is greener than green ? From the Minimal (David Chipperfield and John Pawson) to the decidedly exotic (Longitude 131, Uluru-Kata National Park, Northern Territory, Australia)
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First published February 1, 2006
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February 17, 2008
I've said this very recently -- I love Taschen and I love their Now! series. There are enough in this architecture series that I have to pay attention when I buy them for fear of not buying the same book twice.
Observations on this edition; Odile Decq's work in Austria humbly extrapolates on nature, Eberstadt's Rucksack House is a true delight in modern architectural ingenuity, Gehry's formed exteriors make for some of the most beautiful modern architectural examples, there is a softness in the geometrical pattern of Herzog and de Meuron's Allianz Arena, and Site's Private Residential Tower in Mumbai truly and quite simply boggles my mind and blows me away.
One aspect of architecture I've always enjoyed is how it deals with odd shaped lots -- Endo's Rooftecture house deals admirably with a very small, triangular canvas.
Observations on this edition; Odile Decq's work in Austria humbly extrapolates on nature, Eberstadt's Rucksack House is a true delight in modern architectural ingenuity, Gehry's formed exteriors make for some of the most beautiful modern architectural examples, there is a softness in the geometrical pattern of Herzog and de Meuron's Allianz Arena, and Site's Private Residential Tower in Mumbai truly and quite simply boggles my mind and blows me away.
One aspect of architecture I've always enjoyed is how it deals with odd shaped lots -- Endo's Rooftecture house deals admirably with a very small, triangular canvas.
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