Sci-Fi Architecture - Couverture souple

Toy, Maggie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0471987123 ISBN 13 : 9780471987123

Editeur : Wiley-Academy, 1999

Synopsis

This volume focuses on the possibilities for our future built environment. Featuring the edited manuscript from a symposium at the Royal Academy of Arts which debated the use of high technology in architecture, it presents the visions of the future alongside the material possibilities. Crossing some of the greatest architectural thinkers of our time alongside the most advanced practitioners and experts from technical fields in order to seriously explore the area of fact and fantasy in architectural design, the debate includes Jean Nouvel, Robert Maxwell, Charles Jencks, Iann Barron, Tony Hunt, Norman Foster, and Ian Ritchie The text addresses what our built environment will look like in the future and explores the technology integrated into building design. It features the work of many inspirational engineers as well as architects.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Architectural visions of the future–a vivid exploration of fact and fantasy

Sci–Fi Architecture places the greatest architectural thinkers of our time alongside the most advanced practitioners and experts from technical fields to predict the future of architectural design. Material possibilities and the use of high technology are two of the many dimensions covered in this lively and multifaceted debate, which features the perspectives of Jean Nouvel, Robert Maxwell, Charles Jencks, Jan Kaplicky, and others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Academy
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471987123
• ISBN 13: 9780471987123
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible