Reinier de Graaf

architect, verb.

The New Language of Building

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 7717
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 145mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781839761911
• ISBN-10: 1839761911
• Artikelnr.: 64173126

Autorenporträt

Reinier de Graaf (1964, Schiedam) is a Dutch architect and writer. He is a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), where he leads projects in Europe, Russia and the Middle East. Reinier is the co-founder of OMA's think-tank AMO and Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor of Urban Design at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession and the novel The Masterplan. He lives in Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Tears and Love
- starchitecture
2. Officially Amazing
- world-class
3. Everyone a Winner
- excellence
4. Crisis? What Crisis?
- sustainability
5. All WELL
- wellbeing
6. VancouverTM
- liveability
7. Here nor There
- placemaking
8. Rule Bohemia!
- creativity
9. The B Word
- beauty
10. Architecture without Architects
- innovation
Appendix: The Principles of Profspeak
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index