Pacific Edge
Contemporary Architecture on the Pacific Rim
Published on 28. September 1998
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-500-34163-6 (ISBN)
Description
The aim of this first all-encompassing survey of the Pacific region's contemporary architecture is to show how 33 of the most cutting-edge and innovative architecture and design studies have created buildings by drawing on the stylistic conflicts and dynamism that reverberate across the Pacific. Presented thematically, each studio is profiled in depth, with texts, photographs, line drawings, sketches and extended captions. In counterpoint to the book's thematic structure, three essays by internationally recognized architecture and design writers Aaron Betsky, Davina Jackson and Akira Suzuki consider the regional characteristics of western America, Oceania and Asia.
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Language
English
Spanish
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
496 illustrations, 216 in colour
Dimensions
Height: 270 mm
Width: 250 mm
Weight
1520 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-500-34163-6 (9780500341636)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Introduction - surface crossing and edge environments; modernist legacies - an international vernacular; college cities in western America, Aaron Betsky; edge conditions - regional inflection and the architecture of local identity - software rituals in the contemporary Asian city, Akira Suzuki; dense cities/sprawl-cities - architecture in the expanding new world city - perimeter politics: Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, Davina Jackson; tectonics - innovative in old contexts; media tectonics - generating an ambient architecture tectonics; film histories and project lists.