Sketch Plan Build: World Class Architects Show How It's Done

• Hardcover: 500 pages
• Publisher: Collins Design (April 26, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060749717
• ISBN-13: 978-0060749712

Description

Often the most sophisticated buildings get their start as quick sketches in a moment of sudden inspiration. During the long process of careful refinement, these same sketches take shape and emerge as the buildings we see before us everyday. Focusing on the design process of today's most noteworthy architects, Sketch Plan Build explores the reasoning, resources, and influences behind the projects of today's most recognized architects.

This book is a primary tool for under-standing the different traits and nuances each architect uses to express their own ideas. With international projects from world renowned architects such as Tadao Ando, Coop Himmel(b)lau, and Renzo Piano, and with detailed sketches, drawings, and photographs for each project, Sketch Plan Build is sure to provide a comprehensive compendium for all those interested in how an inspired idea makes the journey from projection to construction.

This book brings together the drawings, sketches, and finished photographs of more than thirty prestigious international architects. With its 500 fully-illustrated pages, Sketch Plan Build is a diverse graphic tour that starts with the sketch, extends to drawings, and concludes with finished photographs -- providing the reader with a profound insight into the design process of today’s most respected architects.

About the Author

Alejandro Bahamón is an architect, writer, and editor. He is the author of many design and architecture books including Mini House, Small Apartments, and Small Lofts.

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A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright

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El Croquis 44+58 TadaoAndo

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Zaha Hadid Works - repost

Book Description:

Zaha Hadid is one of the leading architects of our time. True to her provocative architectural research, her recently built works realize challenging and innovative designs once thought unbuildable. Moreover, a look at her pending projects promise even more dramatic shifts in our understanding and experience of architecture.

Built works include: Contemporary Arts Center, Bergisel Ski Jump, Car Park & Terminus Hoenheim-Nord.

Projects include: Phaeno- Science Center Wolfsburg, MAXXI- Museum of Arts of the 21st Century, BMW Plant- Central Building, One-North- Vista Masterplan Price Tower Arts Center.

Features: Video Interviews [60 min] VR Panoramic Views [11] Paintings [12] Photographs [70] Models [73] Drawings [70] Computer Renderings [90] Computer Animations [13]

The PlanetArchitecture.com Series of e-archives provide virtual tours which transcend the capabilities of traditional media. Utilizing an intuitive multi-referenced interface, e-archives allow users self-directed experiences through a comprehensive collection of videos, photographs, VR panoramic views, drawings, and renderings. [Mac/PC compatible]

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FOBA: Buildings

By Katsu Umebayashi, Thomas Daniell, Michael Webb

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Number Of Pages: 224

Publication Date: 2005-09-08

ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1568985274

ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781568985275

Book Description:

Pure. Minimal. Simple. These are the words commonly used to describe the work of contemporary Japanese architects. FOBA, an internationally celebrated architectural practice based in Kyoto, looks beyond the aesthetics of minimalism, instead finding inspiration in the relationships between structure and site. FOBA: Buildings, the first monograph on the decade-old firm, features ten projects of surprising range: undulating lines, overlapping cubes, interpenetrating forms, and unexpected pairings demonstrate a varied set of approaches to projects. The work is at times boldly expressionistic, and at others refreshingly austere. The book also chronicles the FOB Homes system-a FOBA subsidiary company established in 1999-a uniquely creative response to the generic mass-produced pre-fabricated housing available in Japan. With five basic prototypes that can be easily adapted to any site or client, FOB Homes redefines the concept of standardized housing. Their simple, neutral white boxes counter the visual chaos of contemporary Japan and offer the elegance and experience of "architecture" to the general public-a union of modernist aesthetics with the modernist ideology of democratic, affordable design. Together, FOBA and FOB Homes offers a look into the architecture of tomorrow. FOBA: Buildings will be an inspirational sourcebook of ideas for those interested in innovative architecture with humane ideals.

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Architecture Now - Vol. 2

Description

The fine line between art and architecture is rapidly becoming harder to perceive. With the aid of sophisticated computer programs, today's most innovative architects are working on designs so conceptual they could not be realized in the physical world. Nevertheless, these sorts of forward-thinking projects are an important influence on the architectural climate. At the dawn of the 21st century, architecture is entering a paradigm shift; no longer can it be completely distinguished from art. Be they built from bytes or bricks, the projects in this book represent the imagination of the planet's most talented and creative architects. For all the latest and most important architectural projects and trends, look no further than this volume, the follow-up to our popular and groundbreaking book Architecture Now!

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10 X 10

Description

10x10 is a comprehensive view of new architecture today. 10 of the world’s best-informed critics each selected 10 of the world’s most exceptional emerging architects. The diverse and innovative projects of these 100 architects make up an inspirational and unique collection of recent architecture. The book features over 250 buildings and projects, including recently built work as well as projects currently under construction and due for completion. Each critic also contributes an essay exclusively for this publication and has selected 10 works from varying genres and media to illustrate the context in which architects operate today.

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Architect's Drawings: A selection of sketches by world famous architects through history

Description

The sketch is a window into the architects mind. As creative designers, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think through the use of drawings to approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight. Here for the first time, a wide range of world famous architects' sketches from the Renaissance to the present day can be seen in a single volume. The sketches have been selected to represent the concepts or philosophies of the key movements in architecture in order to develop an overall picture of the role of the sketch in the development of architecture. The book illustrates the work of designers as diverse as Andrea Palladio, Erich Mendelsohn, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Le Corbusier, Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto, Sir John Soane, Francesco Borromini, Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry to name but a few. Each chronologically placed sketch is accompanied by text providing details about the architect's life, a look at the sketch in context, and the connection to specific buildings where appropriate. Style, media and meaning are also discussed, developing an explanation of the architect's thinking and intentions.

As creative designers themselves, architects are interested in how other architects, particularly successful ones, think and draw and approach their work. Historically designers have sought inspiration for their own work through an insight into the minds and workings of people they often regard as geniuses. This collection of sketches aims to provide this insight.

Listed chronologically each sketch will be accompanied by a text which provides: A short synopsis/history of the architect's life; a look at the sketch in this context; the connection to a specific building (where appropriate); techniques of the sketch: style and media; meaning - what the sketch shows about the architect's thinking and intentions followed by a select bibliography for each section.

** Sketches from prominent architects, drawn from an international selection

** A unique insight into how architects use sketches to develop and transfer complex concepts into physical form, enabling readers to improve the connection between their own ideas and designs

** Reveals the secrets of the most successful sketching techniques used by architects for today's designers

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Actions of Architecture: Architects and Creative Users

Description

Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism.

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Architecture In Use: An introduction to the programming, design and evaluation of buildings

Review

"Explicitly addressed to architecture students, [the book] takes a bold stab at making notions that are often expressed in vague terms concrete...It succeeds in driving home the point that, where architecture is concerned form that poorly serves function is no tonic, architectural or otherwise, for anyone." - Civil Engineering

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Architect's Pocket Book

Review :

Simply Indispensible,This little gem is essential for any architect, builder, surveyor, engineer, student, in fact anyone connected with the building industry. Information is clearly presented in a no-nonsense style. The well illutrated diagrams help the building regs. appear almost logical...

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Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture

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Modern Traditions: Contemporary Architecture in India

Description

India is a lively and diverse country that in recent years has developed into one of the largest industrialized nations in the world. This process is also reflected in its architecture. Recent developments betray a new consciousness and the search for an Indian identity. International influences are merging with traditional styles to create a unique new architectural language, which also bears the stamp of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, who worked there.

In its introduction, the book depicts the rise of modern architecture in India since independence in 1947. The main section describes the important tendencies of contemporary Indian architecture in thematic chapters, each with built examples. In addition to the new younger generation of Indian architects, it also considers the first post-independence generation, including Balkrishna Doshi and Charles Correa.

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Le Corbusier 1910-65

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El Croquis 44+58 Tadao Ando

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Description

Volume 68/69: Volume 95: Siza's recent works and future projects, such as the Aveiro University Library, the Portuguese pavilion for EXPO '98, and the extension to the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum are gathered in this new issue. The projects are preceded by an interview with the architect and an introduction by William J.R. Curtis entitled Notes on Invention' which looks back at Siza's extensive oeuvre stretching over four decades.

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El Croquis - Frank Gehry

Description

Weighing three and a half kilograms, this colossal volume combines three previous El Croquis editions examining the work of Gehry, namely numbers 45, 74/75 and 117. Forming a comprehensive overview the volume examines a total of thirty-five projects, all documented with sketches, elevations, diagrams and full page images of completed buildings. Also features interviews with Gehry and various essays examining his work within a broader context.

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El Croquis Sanaa 1983-2004: Sejima Nishizawa 77(I)

Description

Providing a comprehensive overview of the work of this celebrated Japanese practice and the two architects driving it, this sizeable volume combines three, until now out-of-print numbers, in one edition. Thoroughly illustrated - with full page photographs, plans, details and explanatory texts - a total of 59 works and projects are examined. Everything from residential designs, such as the Y' house and House in a Plum Grove,' to museums and commercial projects, such as the N' Museum in Nakachi, and the Christian Dior' building, Omotesando, are included, along with competition entries and unrealized buildings.

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Toyo Ito 1986-1995. (El Croquis Monographs, #71)

• Paperback: 188.0 pages
• Publisher: El Croquis (1996)

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Renzo Piano: Architecture Monograph/

By Renzo Piano

* Publisher: Gingko Press

* Number Of Pages: 64

* Publication Date: 1999-03

* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3927258814

* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783927258815

File size: 27004KB

Description
The Italian master explains why he always insists on exhaustive research and discusses ecological issues such as roof energy accumulation capacity. His knowledge of the structural strengths of various natural fibres and thermal insulation goes hand in hand with his scheme of avoiding non-renewable energy sources.

Intelligent buildings, methods of recycling, understanding of topography all fit into the overall architectural design. The most advanced building systems are also inexpensive in forming ecological spaces.

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