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Author : Sidney K. Robinson
Release : 1991
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis The Continuous Present of Organic Architecture by : Sidney K. Robinson
Download or read book The Continuous Present of Organic Architecture written by Sidney K. Robinson. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Pearson
Release : 2001
Genre : Nature (Aesthetics)
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Book Synopsis New Organic Architecture by : David Pearson
Download or read book New Organic Architecture written by David Pearson. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Organic Architecture is a manifesto for building in a way that is both aesthetically pleasing and kinder to the environment. It illuminates key themes of organic architects, their sources of inspiration, the roots and concepts behind the style, and the environmental challenges to be met. The organic approach to architecture has an illustrious history, from Celtic design, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, to the work of Antoni Gaud� and Frank Lloyd Wright. Today there is a response to a new age of information and ecology; architects are seeking to change the relationship between buildings and the natural environment. In the first part of his book, David Pearson provides a history and assessment of organic architecture. The second part comprises statements from thirty architects from around the world whose work is based on natural or curvilinear forms rather than the straight-line geometrics of modernism. Each statement is accompanied by full-color illustrations of one or several of the architects' built projects.
Author : Christopher Curtis Mead
Release : 1999
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis The Architecture of Bart Prince by : Christopher Curtis Mead
Download or read book The Architecture of Bart Prince written by Christopher Curtis Mead. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book on the exuberant work of a uniquely original American architect Bart Prince, whose breathtaking buildings stand from Ohio to Hawaii, is recognized internationally for embodying the American tradition of individualism personified by Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bruce Goff.
Author : Gary Huafan He
Release : 2023-06-07
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism by : Gary Huafan He
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism written by Gary Huafan He. This book was released on 2023-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology. The epistemologies of self-generation outlined by enlightenment and critical philosophy provided the model for the discursive formations of modern urban planning and architecture. The form of the organism was thought to calibrate modernism’s infinite extension. The architectural organicism of today does not take on the language of the biological sciences, as they did in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but rather the image of complex systems, be they computational/informational, geo/ecological, or even ontological/aesthetic ‘networks’. What is retained from the modernity of yesterday is the ideology of endless self-generation. Revisiting such a topic feels relevant now, in a time when the idea of endless generation is rendered more suspect than ever, amid an ever increasing speed and complexity of artificial intelligence (AI) networks. The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from theoretical and speculative to analytic and critical and from studies of the history of modernity to reflections of our contemporary world. Far from advocating a return to the romantic forms of nineteenth-century naturphilosophie, this project focuses on probing organicism for new forms of critique and emergent subjectivities in a contemporary, 'post'-pandemic constellation of neo-naturalism in design, climate change, complex systems, and information networks. This book will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and professionals in architecture and art history, historians of science, visual artists, and scholars in the humanities more generally.
Author : Maggie Toy
Release : 1993
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Visions for the Future by : Maggie Toy
Download or read book Visions for the Future written by Maggie Toy. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes works by Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Will Alsop, Future Systems, Santiago Calatrava.
