Cool Construction

Raymund Ryan, Ryan

128 pages, parution le 14/09/2005

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Résumé

Cool Construction examines four architects in whose work the tactility of craftsmanship and the luminosity of understatement are combined and refined to an unprecedented degree, creating an architecture that demands patience and scrutiny, but that reveals in return an unparalleled beauty.

Although the architects — David Chipperfield (London), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisbon), and Williams and Tsien (New York) — are based in different cultures, their work exhibits a rare vision of purity and serenity that is independent of time and place. From Chipperfield's sensitive reinterpretations of historical forms to the exquisite restraint in Kishi's work, from Souto de Moura's robust but elemental use of the vernacular to Willia's and Tsien's planar experimentation, each finds maximum expression through the ingenious use of materials and a rigorous manipulation of form.

In contrast to the excesses of postmodernism, cool construction is an architecture that is finely honed and carefully wrought, resonant and sublime.

Contents

Introduction
David Chipperfield
Wari Kishi
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Todd Williams and Billie Tsien
Architects' information

L'auteur - Raymund Ryan

Raymund Ryan teaches at the School of Architecture, University College Dublin. A contributing editor to Blueprint and Commissioner for Ireland at the 2000 Venice Biennale, he divides his time between Dublin and Los Angeles.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Thames
Auteur(s)	Raymund Ryan, Ryan
Parution	14/09/2005
Nb. de pages	128
Format	19 x 25
Couverture	Broché
Poids	494g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780500282670