disappearing contemporary international architectures

books:

Out There. Architecture Beyond Building: 11th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
Aaron Betsky

Marsilio, 2008

This year?s exhibition faces the fundamental changes taking place in contemporary architecture. Established in 1980, the architecture section of the Biennale enables the curators to widen their sphere of activity. Architects from all over the world are looking for ways of fusing the landscape together with new materials and new techniques, to satisfy the longing for better spaces. This fascinating concept is the starting point of what is ...

LOT/EK: Mobile Dwelling Unit

2 reviews
Robert Kronenberg, Christopher Scoates, ...

D.A.P./University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003

MDU
While this book was somewhat well written, it lacked detailed photos, and drawings to help explain the MDU and it's uses. A little disapointed as the book could have explained detailes better.

Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age

3 reviews
Eduard Bru, Jose Alfonso Ballesteros, ...

Actar, 2003

excellent conceptual development
As an architecture student, I have found this book to be a valuable resource in terms of idea generation and development of design concepts. My professor, who practices architecture and makes use of the book on a professional level, recommended it to my classmates and I - I have used it ever since. Not only does it link terms with architectural concepts developed by well known and celebrated ...

False Flat: Why Dutch Design is so Good
Aaron Betsky

Phaidon Press Inc., 2008

The Netherlands is currently one of the world's poles of great modern design, a center of innovation and experimentation in architecture, urban planning, industrial design, and graphic design.This book showcases the dynamism of contemporary Dutch design and, through a detailed exploration of the country's geography, culture, and history, defines its particularities as a manifestation of things intrinsically "Dutch." Eschewing a traditional ...

Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners

1 review
Jane Amidon

Birkhäuser Basel, 2005

Multifaceted
This book not only provides great photos of Kathryn's built works, but it describes and shows her design process, as well as the transitions her practice went through as it grew. Well worth the read and great to have in the design library.

UnStudio: The Floating Space (Basic Architecture)
Aaron Betsky

Taschen, 2007

The U.N. Building (United Nations)
Ben Murphy

Thames & Hudson, 2005

Published on the celebration of the United Nations' sixtieth anniversary. When it was completed in 1952 on a site on New York's East River, the United Nations building stood as a symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity after the Second World War. One of the most historic commissions of the twentieth century was seen through by architect Wallace Harrison, whose triumph put him on the cover of Time magazine. Today, more than fifty ...

The Architecture of Hospitals
Abram de Swaan, Charles Jencks, ...

NAi Publishers, 2006

What makes the difference between sickness and health? What factors spark recovery and discourage deterioration? The idea that the architecture of a hospital contributes to a patientís well-being dates back to the eighteenth century, and has influenced health care facility design ever since. Recent French and German examples suggest that good architecture can contribute to an agreeable, orderly, and well-maintained environment. American ...

the de Young in the 21st century a museum by Herzog & de Meuron
Diana Ketcham, Michael Corbett, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2005

Oversize book detailing the contruction of the new de Young Museum in Golden Gate Parl, San Francisco. 200 photographs, 191 in color. Includes essays on the history of the de Young, designing the museum, its construction and interviews with Walter Hood and Jacques Herzog.

European Union Prize For Contemporary Architecture
Eduard Bru, Matthias Sauerbruch, ...

Actar, 2004

Old Europe is beginning to show signs of renewed vitality, to judge from the results of this latest edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture: Mies van der Rohe Award 2003 . Not only were 269 works selected; not only are the number of competing countries steadily increasing, especially in Eastern Europe; but the standard of the entries, particularly of the winning projects and the 40 runners-up, are arguably the most ...

Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum
Aaron Betsky, Ole Bouman, ...

Birkhäuser Basel, 2005

Architecture has always been a multi-layered discipline playing a catalytic role within society: architecture as representation. Recent developments in nextgeneration computing of the beyond-the-desktop-era (autonomic, grid, ubiquitous and quantum computing) are, however, set to challenge this role. In order to stay in synch with these developments, architecture must significantly change: architecture as an enabling platform that does not ...

Atelier van Lieshout

4 reviews
Jennifer Allen, Aaron Betsky, ...

NAi Publishers, 2007

atelier van lieshout
as i am an admirer of atelier van lieshout, the book is very interesting, amazing - you can read and look in it, whenever you have a couple of minutes, re-read it, re-look at it, there is always something new you can explore

Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio

1 review
Aaron Betsky, K. Michael Hays, ...

Whitney Museum, 2003

The Aberrant Architecture of Diller + Scofidio
The companion book to an exhibition at the Whitney, which runs through June 1, is a work of art in itself. The lenticular plastic cover shimmers enigmatically; folded pages with elliptical cuts allow you to peer inside, propelling you through the book in search of what can be imperfectly glimpsed. It's an appropriate, teasing metaphor for this collection of installations, exhibits, and as yet ...

New Commitment: In Architecture, Art And Design (Reflect # 01)
Janny Rodermond, Fred Feddes, ...

NAi Publishers, 2004

Of late, the disciplines of art, design, and architecture have been called upon to engage in current social issues--a development which surely has some connection with recent international political and economic trends. If the 1990s can be described as a period of unprecedented financial and political prosperity--at least in the Western world--that decade now seems completely consigned to history. Today a new commitment is being argued for in ...

Fabrications
Aaron Betsky, Mark Robbins

Actar/Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 1998

Edited by Terence Riley. Text by Aaron Betsky, Mark Robbins.

Translation
Aaron Betsky

Actar, 2006

Fernando Romero graduated from architecture school in Mexico City in 1995, and then worked with Enric Miralles, Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas before setting up his own firm in 1999, called Laboratorio de la Ciudad de Mexico. LCM soon became influential, as one of few offices--if not the only one--carrying out experimental projects in Mexico City's economically vulnerable environment. In 2005, Romero founded the Laboratory of Architecture, LAR. ...

2G 25 Josep Lluís Mateo, International Architechture Review (2G, 25)
Aaron Betsky, Manuel Delgado, ...

Gustavo Gili, 2004

30 x 23 cm 144 pp páginas ilustradas en color texto: english/español Publicación trimestral ISBN: 84·252·1926·4 Conocido internacionalmente por su labor al frente de la afamada revista Quaderns entre 1981 y 1990, Josep Lluís Mateo nunca ha abandonado el ejercicio profesional construyendo, no sólo en España, sino en varios países europeos. Actualmente compagina su actividad profesional con la docencia en la ETH de Zúrich. Este número ...

Mateo Atlas
Aaron Betsky

Actar/Col.legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya/Minister, 1998

Contributions by Josep Lluis Mateo, Claes Caldenby, Vittorio Magnago-Lampugnani. Text by Aaron Betsky.

Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects

13 reviews
Zaha Hadid, Aaron Betsky

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1998

zaha: imagination and magic
I think this book has more to it than technical drawings could ever give. It's an artistic sight of what and how architecture should be thought and viewed like. Colours, shapes and forms seem to spring out the pages of this book. Go out there and see it four yourself, it's not a book about construction, it's a book about ideas.

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