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This new title in the Modern Masters series is dedicated to the distinguished American architect and includes an introductory essay by Kenneth Frampton, one of the most prestigious names in the field of architecture history. This complete monograph presents 89 of Meier’s buildings, documenting the principal stages of Meier’s career in chronological order, from his early private homes and residential buildings—such as the two large complexes of Twin Parks, Bronx, New York and the Bronx Development Center—to recent major projects in the United States and in several European countries, including Italy. Among the well-known works in this volume are the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the church of Dives in Misericordia, Rome. In the early 1970s, Meier was one of the “New York Five,” an informal group of East Coast architects who shared a preference for new and original contributions to the modern tradition and shaped an alternative to the “gray” architecture that dominated highrise East Coast buildings at the time.

82 colour and 107 b/w illustrations

From the second half of the sixties the rise and consolidation, and more in general the creative career, of Richard Meier has been characterised by slow but steady reflection on modernity, its matrix and the possibility that it can be considered, even today, as a means of regeneration.
A positive obsession, marked by admirable persistence within an overall picture that is very heterogeneous and often confused.
This book attempts to clarify matters regarding the works and projects created over the last decade, mature works that also mark the definitive consecration of Meier as one of the masters of contemporary North American architecture and of the international scene in general.
These reflections on a modernism that is both solar and the conceptual child of abstract culture are superimposed on thoughts about contemporary cities and landscapes and easily lead us to many recent works such as the large complex of the Getty Center in Los Angeles or the museums for the Ara Pacis in Rome and contemporary art museum in Barcelona.
A project development that above all favours great public works creating the opportunity to give a definition to what imagining a collective space means and what a monument is in contemporary terms.
The recently church for the Jubilee in Rome, from this point of view, shows how it is still possible to unite considerations on the modernity of an architectural work with its deep relationship with the simplicity and emotion of form, light and material.

Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra (1872-1970) came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style. Neutra had a keen appreciation for the relationship between people and nature; his trademark plate glass walls and ceilings which turn into deep overhangs have the effect of connecting the indoors with the outdoors. Neutra's ability to incorporate technology, aesthetics, science, and nature into his designs him recognition as one of Modernist architecture`s greatest talents.

About the Series:

Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:

- approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans
- introductory essays exploring the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects
- the most important works presented in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes as well as construction problems and resolutions
-an appendix including a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography, and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

The first volume on the interiors and designs of one of the most influential designers today, providing unique insight into the creative lives of Rick Owens and his wife, Michele Lamy.

This book is conceived as an intimate look into the creative, personal, and often secretive lives of Rick Owens and his wife, muse, and collaborator, Michele Lamy. Known for his self-described “grunge meets glamour” style, Owens showed his first furniture collection in Paris in 2007. It was quickly received as a direct extension of his subversive aesthetic, with its bold mix of material, texture, and functionality, proving that his own artistic universe stretches far beyond the reaches of fashion into a lifestyle his acolytes could embrace.

Rick Owens: Interiors captures the place where Owens began designing furniture as a hobby, his iconic home and headquarters at the Palais Bourbon, a space populated with the furniture that Owens has been designing since 2006. Including antler chairs and petrified bark tables as well as workspaces and bedrooms, this volume provides a unique view of the lifestyle and body of interior design work of an artist who is constantly pushing the boundaries with his personal approach to craft.

Beautifully illustrated with previously unpublished photographs of materials and process, this book offers readers a distinct look at the home and lifestyle of one of the most acclaimed couples working in fashion today.

About the Author:

Rick Owens is an American fashion designer and winner of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.

Cette série de trois ouvrages d’initiation se propose d’aborder les différents aspects du métier de tapissier décorateur. Chaque sujet comprend deux parties, l’une technique, l’autre historique. On ne peut pratiquer le métier de tapissier décorateur sans de solides connaissances des styles et de leur évolution. À la fois pratique et technologique, ces livres contribuent à la formation professionnelle en tapisserie et en décoration d’intérieur.

Sommaire :
Les rideaux et voilages : généralités et définitions, les éléments du décor. Les styles de composition. Les techniques : les prises de mesures, le tracé, les coutures. Les décors de lits : Généralités et définitions, les styles de lits. Les lits contemporains. Glossaire.

Before the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity, America's built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression. Signs, artifacts, and even buildings ranged from playful to eccentric, from deliciously cartoonish to quasipsychedelic. Photographer John Margolies spent over three decades and drove more than 100,000 miles documenting these fascinating and endearingly artisanal examples of roadside advertising and fantasy structures, a fast-fading aspect of Americana.

This book brings together approximately 400 color photographs of Main Street signs, movie theaters, gas stations, fast food restaurants, motels, roadside attractions, miniature golf courses, dinosaurs, giant figures and animals, and fantasy coastal resorts. In an age when online shopping and mega-malls have reconfigured American consumerism, stripping away idiosyncracy in favor of a bland homogeneity, Margolies's elegiac 30-year survey reminds us of a more innocent unpredictable and colorful past.

History is the lens through which Robert A.M. Stern and his fifteen design partners envision an architecture for today. Robert A.M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010–2014 is the seventh volume in a series that encompasses the breadth of the firm’s work since Stern’s earliest projects in the mid-1960s.

Emphasizing the output of the office over the past five years, this volume covers the most globalized period of practice so far. Featuring profiles of well over 100 designs built domestically and abroad, Robert A.M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010–2014 includes significant projects in Asia, from China to India. In the United States, the firm’s educational, cultural, commercial, religious, and residential work continues to broaden its exploration of traditional and contemporary architectural expression.

This volume presents the firm’s continued influence on campuses across the United States, reflecting the position that education holds in its ethic, with new additions to Drexel University in Philadelphia, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and the University of Colorado Boulder. The office also remains key to the ongoing development of its home in New York City, with new residential towers on the High Line and in Greenwich Village.

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Другие книги о творчестве Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern: Houses and Gardens

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Towns

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1999-2003

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 2004-2009

Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010-2014

Robert A.M. Stern. On Campus

Evidence: The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Designs for Living: The Houses of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

In over thirty years of practice, Robert A.M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and, above all, to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. This monograph, covering the years 1999–2002, is the fourth in a series on Stern's work. The volume includes more than one hundred projects, including houses and apartments, buildings for cultural institutions and universities, office and commercial structures, government facilities, and designs for products, including fabric and tableware.

Другие книги о творчестве Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Towns

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 2004-2009

Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010-2014

Robert A.M. Stern: Houses and Gardens

Robert A.M. Stern. On Campus

Evidence: The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Designs for Living: The Houses of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

I think that all architecture comes from what went before. And how carefully one hews to precedent or how many liberties one takes, in my view, is part of a larger set of judgments as to what is, or could be called, “appropriate.” Appropriate from every point of view, especially from the site, the cultural expectations of a community and of the specific client. — Robert A. M. Stern

Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to an architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. This monograph, the fifth volume since Stern opened his practice in 1969, explores the application of this principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, towers, and private residences.

Focused on the years 2004 through 2009, an exceptionally productive period for Stern’s firm, this volume includes designs for the Miami Beach, Jacksonville, and Clearwater Public Libraries in Florida, the vast Zubiarte retail complex in Bilbao, Spain, two new residential colleges at Yale University, the widely acclaimed 15 Central Park West condominium in New York, Comcast, a crystalline addition to the Philadelphia skyline, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas.

In a conversation with renowned architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Stern discusses the principles that have guided the firm since its inception, focusing on the collaborative nature of the work and the importance of precedent and context. He also describes his own role as an educator, as dean of the architecture school at Yale University, and his deep interest in the history of architecture, first awakened during his student days at Yale. 

About the Author
Robert A. M. Stern, the principal partner of the architectural practice he founded in 1969, is also dean of the Yale School of Architecture. In addition to monographs on the firm's work, Stern has written a series of books on New York's architecture and urbanism, including New York 1880, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960.

Projects featured include:

Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Miami Beach Library, Miami Beach, Florida
Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, Swindler Cove Park, Upper Manhattan, New York, New York
Clearwater Public Library, Clearwater, Florida
Zubiarte Retail and Leisure Complex, Bilbao, Spain
Comcast Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Robinson and Merhige Courthouse, Richmond, Virginia
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts
American Revolution Center at Valley Forge, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Residence at One Central Park, New York, New York
55 West, Las Vegas, Nevada
St. Regis Hotel, Bal Harbor, Florida
Fifteen Central Park West, New York, New York
Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, and Clinical Wing, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Museum for African Art, Museum Mile, New York, New York
International Quilt Study Center and Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Mansion on Peachtree, Atlanta, Georgia
Four Seasons Downtown, Hotel and Private Residences at 30 Park Place, New York, New York
Tour Carpe Diem, La Défense, Courbevoie, France
Classical Opera and Ballet Theater, Astana, Kazakhstan
George W. Bush Presidential Center, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
New Residential Colleges, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Другие книги о творчестве Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Towns

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1999-2003

Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010-2014

Robert A.M. Stern: Houses and Gardens

Robert A.M. Stern. On Campus

Evidence: The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Designs for Living: The Houses of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Central to the work of Robert A. M. Stern is a commitment to architecture that reinterprets the past to serve contemporary life. Buildings and Towns explores the application of that principle to a wide range of building types, including libraries, university buildings, cultural centers, offices, health care facilities, courthouses, and recreational complexes completed throughout the world over the past twenty years. The sequel to the highly successful Robert A. M. Stern: Buildings (1996), this volume also incorporates master plans for towns and campuses.

Among the sixty-five featured projects are the Miami Beach Public Library, the new campus for the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, multiple projects for Disney including the Ambassador Hotel in Japan, and a range of apartment towers culminating with 15 Central Park West, the largest residential structure in New York City, opening in fall 2007.

Другие книги о творчестве Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1999-2003

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 2004-2009

Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010-2014

Robert A.M. Stern: Houses and Gardens

Robert A.M. Stern. On Campus

Evidence: The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Designs for Living: The Houses of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Robert A. M. Stern is dedicated to the synthesis of tradition and innovation. In more than thirty-five years of practice, he has produced a wide range of building types with a variety of stylistic influences, all inspired by the great legacy of American architecture. His firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, was first recognized for its distinguished houses, and residential design remains the cornerstone of the practice. This beautifully illustrated monograph - a companion to the best-selling Robert A. M. Stern: Houses - presents twenty-six of the firm's most memorable houses.

Located in diverse settings across North America - from a valley in Colorado with sweeping views of the Aspen mountains to a bluff overlooking Long Island Sound to an island off the coast of British Columbia - these remarkable houses reveal the architect's emphasis on the importance of context and his dedication to exploring the nature of space. Each house invokes the vernacular architectural heritage particular to its region while gracefully reflecting its unique natural surroundings. Whether they are Shingle Style "cottages" by the sea, colonial Georgian country estates, or elegant Regency designs, Stern's houses are unique both for their timelessness and their ability to evoke a conversation with the past - a dialogue he believes lies at the heart of architecture.

Другие книги о творчестве Robert A.M. Stern

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Towns

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1999-2003

Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 2004-2009

Robert A. M. Stern Architects: Buildings and Projects 2010-2014

Robert A.M. Stern. On Campus

Evidence: The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Designs for Living: The Houses of Robert A. M. Stern Architects

Over the last 10 years, Rome has initiated an extensive process of urban transformation involving important changes in both the city s centre and suburbs. The MenoèPiù competition proposes a system of new parks, squares, schools and buildings in the new periphery. With the participation of several architects from Italy and the rest of Europe, new urban settings and future architectures mark a strategy for the capital's transformation. This book presents 12 of the best projects, including 5+1AA, Labics, Ricci&Spaini, Actar/Nabito, Gianfriddo, Grafton, ecc.

Illustrated on nearly every page with color photographs, reproductions of art, drawings, or maps, this overview of Romanesque art and architecture is a visual feast of Western culture during the spread of Christianity, revealed here in hundreds of paintings, religious objects and sculpture, and buildings that have stood for nearly a thousand years.

By the end of the first millennium, both Christianity and Roman architecture were established throughout Europe. As the empire collapsed and Rome withdrew, the architectural traditions left behind — most notably the round arch — were the foundation of what became essentially Christian architecture. Later classified as Romanesque, this style of art and building flourished with the expanding influence of Christianity and monastic culture through the mid-13th century. In sections that explore the evolution of the Romanesque in various regions, this book spotlights such buildings as the fanciful gingerbread collegiate cathedral of St. George in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany, and the picturesque pilgrims' bridge across the Somport in Puente de la Reina, France. Here too are apocalyptic visions in manuscript illuminations in Christian Spain, "tainted" as they were by Moorish influences, and a stunning cathedral-shaped reliquary from Cologne that is domed, gilded, and peopled with saints carved from walrus tusk.

A unique collection of timeless French houses featuring original photography make this a book to treasure. From a chic and sophisticated Parisian pied-à-terre owned by an acclaimed musician to an authentically restored Alpine ski lodge, from a grand château filled with antiques collected by generations of the same family, to writer Marcel Pagnol’s beach cottage in St Tropez, Romantic French Homes presents a stunning selection of homes, most of which have never been photographed before.

Author Lanie Goodman has gathered a collection of 14 amazing properties which sum up all that is French and romantic. The book is divided into four chapters: Châteaux, Bastides, Maisons Bohemes and Paysannes and Pavilions. With stunning photography capturing the grandeur, charm, and mystery of these properties, their romance and sense of history shine through.

• Atmospheric photography by renowned interiors photographer Simon Brown.
• The majority of the homes featured have never been photographed before.