The Elements of Modern Architecture
Understanding Contemporary Buildings
Will be published approx. on 24. September 2020
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-500-02362-4 (ISBN)
Description
This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Covering six continents, and ranging from residences to opera houses, influential buildings of the past seven decades are analysed through detailed consideration of their key characteristics - site and surroundings, space and massing, programme and circulation, fenestration and use of natural light - to give an insight into how each design works as a cohesive whole. Appealing to architects, students and everyone who appreciates great buildings, The Elements of Modern Architecture is an essential reference and inspiration for generations to come.
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Edition
Revised and expanded edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
with over 2,500 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 306 mm
Width: 225 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
2019 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-02362-4 (9780500023624)
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Persons
Dr Antony Radford is an urban designer and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at The University of Adelaide, Australia. His recent books include Understanding Sustainable Architecture and Digital Design: A Critical Introduction. Dr Amit Srivastava is an architectural historian at The University of Adelaide who has lived and worked in India and Australia. Dr Selen Morkoc is a writer and critic who has practised and taught architecture and theory in Turkey and at The University of Adelaide, Australia.
Content
Introduction: Architectural Analysis 01 Sarabhai House | 1951-55 Ahmedabad, India Le Corbusier 02 Canova Museum | 1955-57 Possagno, Treviso, Italy Carlo Scarpa 03 Sydney Opera House | 1957-73 Sydney, Australia Jorn Utzon 04 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 1943-59 New York, USA Frank Lloyd Wright 05 Leicester Engineering Building | 1959-63 Leicester, England Stirling & Gowan 06 Salk Institute for Biological Studies | 1959-66 La Jolla, California, USA Louis Kahn 07 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 1956-58 Humlebaek, Denmark Jorgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert 08 Yoyogi National Gymnasium | 1961-64 Tokyo, Japan Kenzo Tange 09 Seinaejoki Town Hall | 1958-65 Seinaejoki, Ostrobothnia, Finland Alvar Aalto 10 St Mary's Cathedral | 1961-64 Tokyo, Japan Kenzo Tange 11 Hedmark Museum | 1967-79 Hamar, Norway Sverre Fehn 12 Indian Institute of Management | 1963-74 Ahmedabad, India Louis Kahn 13 Bagsvaerd Church | 1974-76 Bagsvaerd, Copenhagen, Denmark Jorn Utzon 14 Milan House | 1972-75 Cidade Jardim, Sao Paulo, Brazil Marcos Acayaba Arquitetos 15 HSBC Office Building | 1979-86 Hong Kong, China Foster Associates 16 Neue Staatsgalerie | 1977-84 Stuttgart, Germany James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Associates 17 House at Martha's Vineyard | 1984-88 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA Steven Holl Architects 18 Church on the Water | 1985-88 Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan Tadao Ando Architect & Associates 19 Lloyd's of London Office Building | 1978-86 London, England Richard Rogers 20 Arab World Institute | 1981-87 Paris, France Jean Nouvel 21 Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art | 1987-95 Barcelona, Spain Richard Meier 22 Vitra Fire Station | 1990-93 Weil am Rhein, Germany Zaha Hadid Architects 23 Lord's Media Centre | 1994-99 London, England Future Systems 24 Menara UMNO | 1995-98 Penang, Malaysia Kenneth Yeang, T. R. Hamzah & Yeang 25 Dancing Building | 1992-96 Prague, Czech Republic Frank O. Gehry & Associates / Vlado Milunic 26 Eastgate | 1991-96 Harare, Zimbabwe Pearce Partnership 27 Thermal Baths in Vals | 1986-96 Vals, Switzerland Peter Zumthor 28 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | 1991-97 Bilbao, Spain Frank O. Gehry & Associates 29 ESO Hotel | 1998-2002 Cerro Paranal, Chile Auer+Weber 30 Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre | 1996-99 Riversdale, NSW, Australia Murcutt Lewin Lark 31 Jewish Museum Berlin | 1988-99 Berlin, Germany Daniel Libeskind 32 Quadracci Pavilion | 1994-2001 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Santiago Calatrava 33 B2 House | 1999-2001 Bueyuekhusun, Ayvac?k, Turkey Han Tuemertekin 34 CaixaForum | 2001-3 Madrid, Spain Herzog & de Meuron 35 New Museum | 2001-7 New York, USA SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) 36 Scottish Parliament Building | 1998-2002 Edinburgh, Scotland EMBT / RMJM 37 Yokohama Port Terminal | 1995-2002 Yokohama, Japan FOA (Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo) 38 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | 1996-2002 Fort Worth, Texas, USA Tadao Ando Architect & Associates 39 Kunsthaus Graz | 2000-3 Graz, Austria Spacelab Cook-Fournier / ARGE Kunsthaus 40 Linked Hybrid | 2003-9 Beijing, China Steven Holl Architects 41 Santa Caterina Market | 1997-2005 Barcelona, Spain EMBT 42 Virgilio Barco Library | 1999-2001 Bogota, Colombia Rogelio Salmona 43 Southern Cross Station | 2001-7 Melbourne, Australia Grimshaw Architects / Jackson Architecture 44 Meiso no Mori Crematorium | 2004-6 Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan Toyo Ito & Associates 45 Civil Justice Centre | 2001-7 Manchester, England Denton Corker Marshall 46 Green School | 2005-7 Badung, Bali, Indonesia PT Bambu 47 Mimesis Museum | 2007-9 Paju Book City, Republic of Korea Alvaro Siza / Castanheira & Bastai / Jun Sung Kim 48 Juilliard School & Alice Tully Hall | 2003-9 New York, USA Diller Scofidio + Renfro / FXFOWLE 49 uMkhumbane Museum | 2003-17 Durban, South Africa Choromanski Architects 50 41 Cooper Square | 2004-9 New York, USA Morphosis Architects 51 Oslo Opera House | 2002-8 Oslo, Norway Snohetta 52 MAXXI | 1998-2009 Rome, Italy Zaha Hadid Architects 53 Sancaklar Mosque | 2011-13 Istanbul, Turkey Emre Arolat Architecture 54 Micro Yuan'er / Micro Hutong | 2013-16 Beijing, China Zhang Ke (ZAO/standardarchitecture) 55 Harbin Opera House | 2010-15 Harbin, China Ma Yansong (MAD Architects)