Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot - Couverture souple

Randl, Chad

 
9781568986814: Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot
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ISBN 10 : 1568986815 ISBN 13 : 9781568986814
Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Synopsis

Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design. Rotating structures have been employed to solve problems and create effects that stationary buildings can't achieve. Rotating buildings offered ever-changing vistas and made interior spaces more flexible and adaptable. They were used to impress visitors, treat patients, and improve the green qualities of a structure by keeping particular rooms in or out of the sun.

The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a warden s constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.

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À propos de l?auteur

Chad Randl is an architectural history PhD student at Cornell University. He is the author of A-frame and has written for Old House Journal, Adirondack Life, and other publications.

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Éditeur
Princeton Architectural Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1568986815
ISBN 13 
9781568986814
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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