Gevork Hartoonian

Architecture and Spectacle: A Critique

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of "neo-avant-garde" architecture. It discusses the spectacle and excess which permeates contemporary architecture in reference to the present aesthetic tendency for image making, but does so by applying the tectonic of theatricality discussed by the nineteenth-century German architect Gottfried Semper. In doing so, it breaks new ground by opening up a dialogue between the study of the past and the design of the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781138274068
• ISBN-10: 1138274062
• Artikelnr.: 51268091

Autorenporträt

Gevork Hartoonian is Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The crisis of the object
Theatricality: the structure of the tectonic
Peter Eisenman: in search of degree zero architecture
Bernard Tschumi: return of the object
Rem Koolhaas: exuberant object of delight
Zaha Hadid: proun without a cause!
Frank Gehry: roofing, wrapping, and wrapping the roof
Steven Holl: fabrication detailed
Surface: the a-tectonic of roofing and wrapping
Afterword
Index.