Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of eight contemporary architects / Rafael Moneo ; [translated by Gina Cariño].
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262134438
- 9780262134439
- Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of 8 contemporary architects
- 720.922 22
- NA680 .M59 2004
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Includes index.
"Published in association with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design"--T.p. verso.
Preface -- James Stirling -- Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown -- Aldo Rossi -- Peter Eisenman -- Álvaro Siza -- Frank O. Gehry -- Rem Koolhaas -- Herzog & de Meuron.
"Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the headquarters of Bankinter in Madrid, the National Museum of Roman Art in Merida, the Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Museums of Modern Art and Architecture in Stockholm, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book, he looks at eight of his contemporaries - all architects of international stature - and discusses the theoretical positions, technical innovations, and design contributions of each. Moneo's discussion of these eight architects - James Stirling, Robert Venturi with Denise Scott Brown, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and the partnership of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron - has the tone of a series of lectures on modern architecture by a master architect; the reader hears not the dispassionate theorizing of an academic, but Moneo's own deeply held convictions as he considers the work of his contemporaries. More than 600 illustrations accompany the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Translated into English.
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