Beautiful Moves: Designing Stadia

Benjamin Flowers

192 pages, parution le 09/12/2018

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There has been a renaissance in the design of stadia, which are often the most expensive and monumental of projects and have become icons of identity and defining presences in the built landscape. This book examines a range of exemplary stadia, including examples from Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog and de Meuron, Foster +Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, once pleaded for `a pretty move for the love of God' when watching his beloved soccer. This book is likewise interested in `beautiful moves', but turns instead to the architecture of the stadium as an architectural type as captivating as the play occurring on the pitch. In the past 30 years a number of stadium projects have been completed that highlight how this building type has become a site for architectural innovation and complexity. Clients that once would once have turned to large firms specializing in stadia instead began to hire A-list and Pritzker-Prize-winning architects to design new stadia. As a result, in cities around the world stadia are often the most expensive and monumental of projects, and may be icons of identity and defining presences in the built landscape. By examining a range of exemplary stadia from around the world (built, unbuilt and demolished projects), this book presents for the first time a canon for this building type. Organized chronologically, it includes famous examples from the likes of Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Studio Gang.Introduction. Chapter 1: 1960: The Postwar Stadium and the City. Chapter 2: 1970: The Rise of the High Tech Mega Project. Chapter 3: 1980: Decline and Disaster. Chapter 4: 1990: The Postmodern Stadium. Chapter 5: 2000: The Starchitect and the Stadium. Chapter 6: 2010: Stadia Worlds. Conclusion: Stadia of the FutureBenjamin Flowers is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (2014), Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century (2009), and most recently, Sport and Architecture (2016). He is the director of Stadia Lab.

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Éditeur(s)	Lund humphries
Auteur(s)	Benjamin Flowers
Parution	09/12/2018
Nb. de pages	192
EAN13	9781848222243

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