Contemporary World Architecture

Pearman Hugh

ISBN 10: 0714842036 / ISBN 13: 9780714842035

Editore: Phaidon London 1998, 2002

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29.0 x 25.0cms 508pp b/w & colour illusts very good+ paperback This book offers a comprehensive survey of architecture at the beginning of the 21st century. It analyses 13 building types and 600 buildings. The chapters are: arts; performance; larning; religion; consumerism;; living; working; industry; leisure; transport; sport; the civic realm; towers.

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• Titolo: Contemporary World Architecture
• Editore: Phaidon London 1998
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0714842036
• ISBN 13: 9780714842035
• Rilegatura: Brossura

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Riassunto

Contemporary World Architecture is a comprehensive survey of international architecture from the late 1960s to the end of the twentieth century, offering a critical study of the social, cultural and political changes that have shaped the built environment. Continual advances in building technology, shifting demographics and increasing levels of global communications have a continuing impact on architectural ideology and building types.

This extensive volume is divided into 13 chapters, each organized typologically by building function: Visual Arts, Performance, Learning, Religion, Consumerism, Living, Workplace, Industry, Leisure, Transport, Sport, Civic Realm and Towers. It presents over 660 recent public and private buildings by many of the world's key protagonists, examining the evolution of new architectural solutions from the late 1960s to the end of the century. Now available for the first time in paperback, this intricately illustrated and rigorous critique will provide a stimulating and invaluable reference book for a wide audience.

Informazioni sull?autore

Hugh Pearman is a London-based writer, broadcaster and lecturer. He has been architecture and design critic for The Sunday Times since 1986, and contributes to numerous other newspapers, magazines and journals worldwide. He is also the author of Equilibrium: the Work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, also published by Phaidon.