New Directions in Contemporary Architecture Evolutions and Revolutions in Building Design Since 1988

by Puglisi, Luigi Prestinenza

• ISBN13: 9780470518908
• ISBN10: 0470518901
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-05
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Through its story-telling dimension, this book traces the last 20 years of Western architecture focusing attention on the current situation that includes designers' eclecticism and style, the star system, urban and landscape design as well as the influence on architecture exerted by the so-called 'digital revolution'. A number of historical events like the fall of the Berlin Wall, September 11th and the energy crisis underline the narrative flow of the book, as the urgency of these events pose critical questions of architecture.

Author Biography

Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi is an architectural writer and critic. he teaches Contemporary Architectural History at La Sapienza University in Rome. He writes for Domus, The Plan, L'Arca, Abitare and Architectural Design. He is the Italian correspondent for A10 new European architecture, Monument (Australia) and the Architect's Newspaper (USA). He is an editor for Le Carre Bleu. Prestinenza Puglisi is the director of the weekly presS/Tletter (www.presstletter.com) and curator of numerous exhibitions and events. he has written many books and is also the guest-editor of Italy: A New Architectural Landscape, Architectural Design, 2007.

His writings can be found online at: http://www.prestinenza.it

Table of Contents

After Deconstructivism 1988-92

Precedents

Deconstructivist Architecture

A New Paradigm

Zaha and the Game of Opposites

Rem Koolhaas: Method and its Paradoxes

Frank O Gehry: New Compositions

Disjunction and Dis-location

Between Gesture and Perception: Fuksas and Holl

The Minimalist Approach: Herzog & de Meuron

Minimalism in England, France and Japan

The development of High Tech

Post-Modernism and Modernism Continued

The Inheritance of Deconstructivism

New Directions: 1993-7

The Turning Point

Explosive Buildings

Los Angeles, Graz and Barcelona

The Radicals and Coop Himmelb (L)au

Nouvel: Beyond Transparency

Herzog & de Meuron and the Skin of the Building

Minimalisms

Questions of Perception

Koolhaas: Euralille

The Poetics of the Electronic: Between the Blob and the Metaphor

Eco-tech

Renzo Piano's Soft-Tech

PAYS-BAS_perspectives

Pro and Versus a New Architecture

The MoMA Extension

The Beginnings of a New Season

A Season of Masterpieces: 1998-2001

The Guggenheim in Bilbao (Frank O Gehry)

The House in Floriac (Rem Koolhaas)

The Jewish Museum in Berlin (Daniel Libeskind)

The KKL in Lucerne (Jean Nouvel)

The Un-Private House

The Möbius House

A Dutchness in the State of Architecture

New Landscapes,New Languages

New Landscape: The West and East Coast

A New Avant-Garde

Landscapes of Aesthetic Objects?

Aesthetics, Ethics and Mutations

The Eleventh of September

Two Thousand and One

Starting Over

Trends: 2000-7

The World Trade Center

Clouds and Monoliths

The Star System

The Crisis of the Star System

The Crisis of Architectural Criticism

The End of the Star System?

Ten Projects

Super-Creativity and Ultra-Minimalism

Back to Basics

The Next Stop

Timeline

Bibliography

Index

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