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Model perspectives :

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0415731933

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0415731941

(Number (ISBN

9780415731935

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9780415731942

Title Proper

Model perspectives :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

structure, architecture and culture /

First Statement of Responsibility

Mark R. Cruvellier, Bjorn N. Sandaker, Luben Dimcheff.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 427 pages ;

Dimensions

27 cm

Text of Note

Includes index.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

1. Columns : Auguste Perret and the concrete column / Peter Collins -- Mies' columns: Barcelona and beyond / Kenneth Frampton -- Villa Mairea's columnar variations / Juhani Pallasmaa -- A forest of minimal columns / Mark Wigley ; Giles Reid -- The Sendai Mediatheque and its tube columns / Andrea Maffei ; Edzard Mik interview with Toyo Ito -- Model studies -- 2. Walls : Barragán's walls and colour / Danièle Pauly -- Inca walls at Ollantaytambo / Jean-Pierre Protzen -- Schindler's metaphysical walls / Richard Guy Wilson -- Ando's ephemeral concrete walls / Jin Baek -- The sculpted walls of Richard Serra / Gottfried Böhm -- Model studies -- 3. Beams and slabs : Arresting cantilever deflections / Robert Silman -- Nordic pavilion: an illuminating beam matrix / Bjørn Normann Sandaker -- The Kimbell's beam variations / Patricia Cummings Loud ; Paula Deitz -- The iron and steel beam evolves: Mies follows suit / Rowland Mainstone ; Peter Blake -- Chinese building traditions meet modernism / Delin Lai -- Nervi's isostatically inspired ribbed floors / Allison B. Halpern, David P. Billington and Sigrid Adriaesnssen -- Maillart minimalism: the flat slab emerges / Sigfried Giedion -- Concrete takes flight / Hadas A. Steiner -- Floor plate-defined façades / Michael Holt and Marissa Looby -- Model studies -- 4. Trusses : La Tour Eiffel: a truss, and more ... / Roland Barthes -- Truss forms and style battles / Michale de Bouw, Ine Wouters, Leen Lauriks, Quentin Collette, Abdelrahman Hussein Younes -- Truss forms and design collaborations / Christian Penzel -- Neimeyer's subtly deceptive trusses / Francesco Dal Co and Tomaso Trombetti -- Metabolism and the space frame / Zhongjie Lin -- Tensegrity and the architecture of life / Donald E. Ingber -- Model studies -- 5. Frames : To frame -- or not to frame / Colin Rowe -- Framing views, Framing victory / Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe and John K. Papadopoulos -- Breuer and Nervi's folded frames / Barry Bergdoll -- Braced frames and high tech dreams / Murray Fraser with Joe Kerr -- Informal frames / Cecil Balmond -- Model studies -- 6. Cables, nets and membranes : Seemingly free form structures in Montreal and Munich / Philip Drew -- Cybernetic and lightweight dreams / Hadas A. Steiner -- Stayed roof systems and high tech identity / Murray Fraser with Joe Kerr -- Jugaad: suspending a communal canopy / Sanjeev Shankar -- Marsyas: structure and metaphor / Johanna Burton ; Cecil Balmond -- Model studies -- 7. Arches, domes and shells : Informing arch form / Robert Osserman -- Veiled and vaulted space / Gé́rard Grandval ; Oleg Grabar -- Domes as optical instruments / George Hersey -- The politics of Candela's shells / María González Pendás -- SANAA's ceilings and skies / Michael Holt and Marissa Looby -- Model studies -- Afterword : Models are real / Olafur Eliasson -- A model curriculum / Mark Morris.

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This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and authoritative insight into the links between structure, architecture, and cultural context.

Architecture-- Themes, motives.

Architecture-- Themes, motives.

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Cruvellier, Mark

Dimcheff, Luben

Sandaker, Bjørn Normann,1954-

Date of Transaction

20200822110438.0

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[Book]

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