Vessels and fields / Wellington Reiter ; foreword by Patricia Phillips.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1568981872
- 9781568981871
- Vessels & fields [Cover title]
- 720.92 21
- NA737.R446 A4 1999
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.92 REI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Issued | 14/10/2024 | A255292B |
Browsing City Campus shelves, Shelving location: City Campus Main Collection Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
720.92 RAD Smiljan Radic / | 720.92 RAH Victor Rahola i Aguadé / | 720.92 REI Lilly Reich, designer and architect / | 720.92 REI Vessels and fields / | 720.92 REW Rewi : āta haere, kia tere / | 720.92 ROC Paulo Mendes da Rocha : obra reciente = recent work / | 720.92 ROS A scientific autobiography / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- Introduction -- Vessels -- Apparatus -- Clocks -- Islands -- Noah's Ark -- Fields -- Habitable Vessels -- Bridges -- Urban Instruments 1 -- Urban Instruments 2 -- Photo credits -- Acknowledgments.
"Vessels and Fields is a collection of Wellington Reiter's experimental projects, presented through a series of powerful drawings that owe as much of a debt to Lebbeus Woods for their frenetic and intense energy as they do to Piranesi for their ability to use simple pen-and-ink linework to create unusually complex spaces. These fantastical projects-a mix of architecture, museum installations, and public art-often involve the reuse of obsolete military installations (abandoned missile silos, historic battlefields, and decommissioned aircraft carriers), which adds to the provocative nature of the work. Just a few of the more than 20 projects included in this collection are the excavation of a defunct missile silo to allow for public viewing; two giant cones serving as timepieces, one measuring the growth of a tree and the other the erosion of a boulder; and a bridge between two islands on either side of the International Date Line that eventually becomes a meeting point between two distinct political ideologies. An introduction by Patricia Phillips situates the work within an artistic as well as an architectural context."--Publisher description.
Machine converted from AACR2 source record.
There are no comments on this title.