Contemporary World: Architecture - Couverture souple

Pearman, Hugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0714842036 ISBN 13 : 9780714842035

Editeur : Phaidon, 2002

Synopsis

Contemporary World Architecture is a comprehensive survey of international architecture from the late 1960s to the end of the twentieth century, offering a critical study of the social, cultural and political changes that have shaped the built environment. Continual advances in building technology, shifting demographics and increasing levels of global communications have a continuing impact on architectural ideology and building types.

This extensive volume is divided into 13 chapters, each organized typologically by building function: Visual Arts, Performance, Learning, Religion, Consumerism, Living, Workplace, Industry, Leisure, Transport, Sport, Civic Realm and Towers. It presents over 660 recent public and private buildings by many of the world's key protagonists, examining the evolution of new architectural solutions from the late 1960s to the end of the century. Now available for the first time in paperback, this intricately illustrated and rigorous critique will provide a stimulating and invaluable reference book for a wide audience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

HUGH PEARMAN is a London-based writer, broadcaster and lecturer. Architecture and design critic of The Sunday Times, London, since 1986, he contributes to numerous other newspapers, magazines and periodicals in Europe and America. With The Sunday Times he has instigated and helped judge two annual award schemes for architecture: the Building of the Year Award, with the Royal Fine Art Commission, 1989-95, and the Stirling Prize, with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), since 1996. He was a founder member of the Architectural Advisory Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain (1992-5). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of British Sculptors, an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and Chairman of the Art for Architecture initiative at the Royal Society of Arts. He curated the 1998-2000 British Council international touring exhibition of Millennium projects, 12 for2000, and is the author of Equilibrium: the work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, published by Phaidon Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phaidon
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0714842036
• ISBN 13: 9780714842035
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible