3D-2D: The Designers Republic's: Adventures In and Out of Architecture with Sadar Vuga Arhitekti and Spela Mlakar

by Ole Bouman

Created by the people at The Designers Republic, one of today’s most revered design firms, 3D-2D/Designers Republic explores new ways of communicating architecture. By recreating a three-dimensional building in the form of a printed publication, this innovative book attempts to expand and open up new approaches to presenting and experiencing architectural products, based on the firm’s own products and research from over the past ten years. The book takes as its subject the CCIS Office Building (Chamber of Commerce and industry of Slovenia) which was designed by Sadar + Vuga, an up-and-coming architectural practice. Both provocative and interactive, this unique case study reinvents the architectural drawing in ways that force the reader to rethink his relationship to buildings, to drawings, and to space in general. As visionary as it is plain fun to read, 3D-2D is a user-friendly book in a post electronic, post-CD-ROM, post–DVD era—one that challenges the potentials of a book as a medium in itself.

Genres: Art Design

198 pages, Spiral-bound

First published July 1, 2001

About the author

Ole Bouman (born 1960, Amersfoort) is a Dutch German historian, writer, curator in urbanism design and architecture. Bouman is the founding director of Design Society, an initiative of China Merchants Group and the Victoria and Albert Museum in Shenzhen, which opened in December 2017.