Nomadic Homes: Architecture on the Move / Architektur in Bewegung / L'architecture mobile - Rilegato

Jodidio, Philip

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ISBN 10: 3836562332 ISBN 13: 9783836562331

Casa editrice: Taschen America Llc, 2017

Riassunto

Nomadic homes come in all shapes and sizes. They are for the wealthy and the poor, the trendy and the out-of-luck. Changing one’s place of residence is an endeavor that is as old as humanity, for reasons of season, or, more recently, to better occupy leisure time.

Written and edited by Philip Jodidio, this volume with illustrations by Russ Gray contains some of the most remarkable examples of homes on the move. Starting with totally revamped Airstream mobile homes, and going on to spectacular moveable vacation houses of the Epic Retreats “pop-up boutique hotel” in Wales, this book doesn’t stop moving, surveying the best in campers and tents, and going on to extravagant marine dwellings like BIG’s Urban Rigger, or the Manta Underwater Room in Zanzibar. At the other end of the spectrum, we find refugee housing for those forced into a life on the move, including shelters designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban.

What we discover throughout is that the nomadic spirit of our hunter-gatherer ancestors is very much alive in the modern world. Where architecture has often sought stability and thus the lack of movement, modernity has brought a sense of the finite, and a good deal of modesty about posterity and longevity. What more contemporary thought could there be than to seek nothing so much as to move, to grow perhaps, but always to move. “A good traveler,” said the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu “has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” As this book ably shows, it is the journey that counts.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Russ Gray est designer et illustrateur et vit à Salt Lake City, dans l’Utah. Il dirige son propre studio de création, Russ Gray Design, après avoir été directeur artistique et designer senior au sein de plusieurs agences, et avoir collaboré avec des marques internationales telles que Disney Publishing, Google, Franklin Mill, Chapters/Indigo et New Scientist Magazine.

Philip Jodidio a étudié l’histoire de l’art et l’économie à Harvard, puis dirigé la rédaction de Connaissance des Arts pendant plus de vingt ans. Chez TASCHEN, il a notamment signé la série Architecture Now! et des monographies de nombreux architectes majeurs, dont Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel et Zaha Hadid.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Taschen America Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Lingue multiple
• ISBN 10: 3836562332
• ISBN 13: 9783836562331
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 343
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: TASCHEN GmbH; contact@taschen.com; ; Hohenzollernring 53. D; K�ln; 50672; Germania