100 Buildings
1900-2000 - Produced by the Now Institute
Published on 24. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8478-5950-4 (ISBN)
Description
For this volume, over forty internationally renowned architects and educators from Peter Eisenman and the late Zaha Hadid to Rafael Moneo and Cesar Pelli were asked to list the top 100 twentieth-century architectural projects they would teach to students. The contributors were encouraged to select built projects where formal, spatial, technological, and organizational concepts responded to dynamic historical, cultural, social, and political circumstances. The capacity of these buildings to resist, adapt, and invent new typologies solidifies their timeless relevance to future challenges. The result is presented here in this unique volume: a master list of the top 100 must-know built works of architecture designed and completed between 1900 and 2000. Ranging from houses and apartment buildings to museums and buildings for education and government, the book offers a wealth of extraordinary works of design and construction and is an essential edition for anyone with an interest in architecture and design.
Reviews / Votes
"If given the chance to pick the brains of numerous starchitects about the most important buildings of the 20th century, you'd doubtlessly get a broad-and contentious-spectrum of answers. Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne took on this task after noticing, in the architect's words, "a declining awareness of historical precedent among my students." Together with UCLA's Now Institute, Mayne polled 40 architects-including Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, and others-to list the most influential buildings of the previous century. The results, to be released this fall, have been distilled in 100 Buildings, an essential guidebook for architecture students and design buffs alike, detailing the enduring influence of projects ranging from Villa Savoye to the Vanna Venturi House."-Metropolis Magazine
"To create this primer on iconic modern buildings, more than 50 internationally renowned architects and educators-including the late Zaha Hadid-were asked to list their top 100 20th-century architectural projects. The results-from the Gehry House in Santa Monica to the Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo in Brazil-do not disappoint."
-PureWow.com
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
301 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 259 mm
Width: 103 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
578 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-5950-4 (9780847859504)
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Persons
Thom Mayne is a Pritzker Prize winning American architect and educator, who founded the interdisciplinary architecture and urban design firm mOrphosis in 1972. He is the cofounder and executive director of the Now Institute and currently distinguished professor at UCLA s Architecture and Urban Design. Eui-Sung Yi is design principal at Morphosis and director of the Now Institute at UCLA. The Now Institute is an urban research center at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design that applies strategic interdisciplinary thinking to real-world issues.