High Tech Architecture

Author : Angus J Macdonald
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781785006463

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High Tech Architecture by Angus J Macdonald Pdf

High Tech - sometimes known as Structural Expression - is a style of Modern architecture that produced some of the most prominent and visually exciting buildings of the twentieth century. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters in Hong Kong, the Lloyd's of London headquarters in London, UK, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Extensively illustrated with photographs and diagrams, and accessibly written, High Tech Architecture - A style reconsidered discusses the intended meanings of the visual vocabulary involved in High Tech, and places the style in the broad context of other Modern architecture of the twentieth century. The book offers a balanced re-appraisal of the extravagant claims that have been made for High Tech, by its progenitors and architectural critics, as an architecture appropriate for the built environment of the future.

Author : Colin Davies
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015013178705

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High Tech Architecture by Colin Davies Pdf

Author : Todd Gannon
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606065303

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Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech by Todd Gannon Pdf

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the “clip-on” approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of “well-tempered environments” fostered by integrated mechanical and electrical systems, and his late-career assessments of High Tech practitioners such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano. Gannon devotes significant attention to Banham’s late work, including fresh archival materials related to Making Architecture: The Paradoxes of High Tech, the manuscript he left unfinished at his death in 1988. For the first time, readers will have access to Banham’s previously unpublished draft introduction to that book.

Author : Colin Davies
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033084125

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High Tech Architecture by Colin Davies Pdf

Author : Lawrence A. Herzog
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 080186643X

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From Aztec to High Tech by Lawrence A. Herzog Pdf

After reviewing three key period in Mexico's three-thousand-year-old architectural past -indigenous, Spanish colonial, and modern- urban planning scholar Herzog focuses on the border territories of northern Mexico and southwestern United States, particularly in California. He explores the architectural future of interdependent neighbors who share a history, an economy and a landscape.

Author : Joan Kron,Suzanne Slesin
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006315140

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High-tech by Joan Kron,Suzanne Slesin Pdf

Author : Catherine Slessor,John Linden
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500283060

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Eco-tech by Catherine Slessor,John Linden Pdf

The high-tech architecture movement embodied by seminal buildings such as Paris's Centre Pompidou (1977) and London's Lloyd's Building (1986) has undergone a subtle but palpable transformation. While daring feats of structural engineering still mark recent projects by the architects who forged the earliest examples, a new generation has expanded the vocabulary of this architectonic language, and evolved an architecture with different aims. The most significant of these objectives is to create a sustainable architecture. This international survey presents projects completed in the 1990s that use high-tech forms and materials for environmentally intelligent means. It brings together innovative approaches by established practitioners -- Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Michael Hopkins -- with a new generation -- Thomas Herzog, Von Gerkan Marg, Design Antenna, and Itsuko Hasegawa. The introduction charts the evolution of high-tech architecture and its progression toward more ecological concerns, and the movement as a whole is considered in a broader architectural context. At the book's heart is a selection of forty of the world's most sophisticated projects, each with a thorough description of its unique architectural and technological features, as well as extensive plans, drawings, and sketches. A complete reference section includes architect biographies and technical details of each project. Accompanying the texts and drawings are spectacular photographs, most of which were specially commissioned for this publication.

Author : Douglas Murphy
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781781689813

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Last Futures by Douglas Murphy Pdf

Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city? In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities and a meaningful connection with nature. In this brilliant work of cultural history, architect Douglas Murphy traces the lost archeology of the present day through the works of thinkers and designers such as Buckminster Fuller, the ecological pioneer Stewart Brand, the Archigram architects who envisioned the Plug-In City in the ’60s, as well as co-operatives in Vienna, communes in the Californian desert and protesters on the streets of Paris. In this mind-bending account of the last avant-garde, we see not just the source of our current problems but also some powerful alternative futures.

Author : Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616898830

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Canadian Modern Architecture by Elsa Lam,Graham Livesey Pdf

Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.

Author : Yanni Alexander Loukissas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415592284

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Co-designers by Yanni Alexander Loukissas Pdf

The book is organised around the accounts of professional designers engaged in a high-stakes competition to redefine architecture in the context of computer simulation.

Author : Tom Alphin
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781593276133

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The LEGO Architect by Tom Alphin Pdf

Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way!

Author : Ignasi De Sola-Morales
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262540851

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Differences by Ignasi De Sola-Morales Pdf

Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Solà-Morales. Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist Ignasi de Sola-Morales. Many of the essays have never previously been translated, and the author has provided a new introduction especially for this English edition. Contemplating the panorama of contemporary art and architecture, de Sola-Morales posits that there is no one way to describe today's practice; instead he concentrates on elucidating the present dynamic of contrast, diversity, and tension. In an unorthodox pairing, de Sola-Morales derives his inspiration from both phenomenology and Deleuzean poststructuralism. Combining these philosophical inheritances allows him to reinvoke the human subject without referring to classical humanism or announcing the death of the object. His retrospective review of the disciplines of art and architecture, particularly as they have developed since World War II, provokes him to design, draft, and ultimately build a description of Modernism¹s lineage of subjectivity. The result is a provocative construction of fluid "topographies" that articulate, rather than depict, the shaky ground on which our current artistic and architectural production rests. The essays: Sado-masochism: Criticism and Architectural Practice. Topographies of Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe and Minimalism. Architecture and Existentialism. Weak Architecture. From Autonomy to Untimeliness. Place: Permanence or Production. Difference and Limit: Individualism in Contemporary Architecture. High-Tech: Functionalism or Rhetoric. The Work of Architecture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

Author : Edward R. Ford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262562022

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The Details of Modern Architecture by Edward R. Ford Pdf

Covering the period 1890 - 1932 this book focuses on various recognised masters explaining the detailing and construction techniques used in their buildings.

Author : Reyner Banham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226825885

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Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment by Reyner Banham Pdf

Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.

Author : Robert Venturi
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870702823

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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi Pdf

Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.