100 Contemporary Houses — Philip Jodidio
100 Contemporary Houses
Philip JodidioTaschen
100 Contemporary Houses
Philip JodidioDomestic bliss Innovative intimate architecture from China to Chile Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect The scale may be more modest than public projects the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site but the preferences requirements and vision of particular personalities becomes priority The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of home into a workable constructed reality This publication rounds up 100 of the world s most interesting and pioneering homes from the past decade featuring a host of talents both new and established including John Pawson Richard Meier Shigeru Ban Tadao Ando Zaha Hadid Herzog and de Meuron Daniel Libeskind Alvaro Siza UNStudio and Peter Zumthor Accommodating daily routines of eating sleeping and shelter as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate
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Concrete That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks right Well yes And no Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of building substances and when properly handled is one of the noble materials of contemporary architecture A kind of liquid stone at the outset it is malleable durable and capable of prodigious feats of engineering This Bibliotheca Universalis edition highlights the best work done in concrete of recent years It includes such stars as Zaha Hadid Herzog de Meuron and Steven Holl but also surprising new architects like the Russians SPEECH and artists such as James Turrell who turned the famous concrete spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright s Guggenheim in New York into the setting of one of his most remarkable pieces Tanıtım Bülteninden
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Not so very long ago some might have considered wood a material of the past long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel The truth is radically different Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefits wood has seen a fabulous resurgence in contemporary construction This book explores how architects around the world have created and invented with this elementary material Featuring follies very large buildings and ambitious urban renewal schemes it celebrates the diverse deployment of wood by architects around the world We see how wood can at once transform urban spaces as in the Metropol Parasol in Seville by Jürgen Mayer H and allow for sensitive interventions in natural environments such as at the Termas Geométricas Hot Springs Complex in Pucón Chile by Germán del Sol True to all TASCHEN architecture titles the book pays tribute to many emerging international talents as well as to such renowned figures as Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano It celebrates each architect s vision and innovation as well as investigating the techniques trends and principles that have informed their work with wood It examines the computer guided milling that has allowed for novel new forms the responsible harvesting that allows wood to align with our environmental concerns and above all wood s enduring appeal to our senses and psyche comforting hectic modern lives with a sense of Arcadian simplicity Tanıtım Bülteninden