Architecture Now!: v. 4

by PhilipJodidio (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $8.34

  Architecture Now! Volume 4 proves that the best keep getting better, with new names from all over the world and the most exciting and unique buildings and designs. As always, easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and website addresses. Here are just a few of the projects that are featured in the book: a shelter for the needy made out of sandbags; Nomadic Museum made by Shigeru Ban out of shipping containers; a tree house in Germany; New Museums that have been built by Gehry, Mansilla and Tunon, Richard Meier or Herzog & de Meuron; the BMW Central Building in Leipzig by Zaha Hadid; Klein Dytham's amazing Wedding Chapel in Japan; Design hotels in Berlin, Sao Paulo, and Cerro Paranal, Chile; the new masterpiece by Rem Koolhaas/OMA - the Central Library in Seattle; private houses in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Corsica, and Great Mackerel Beach, Australia; Mix Las Vegas by Patrick Jouin; A tower that will grow like a tree in New York; With-it architects like David Adjaye, Caramel, Graftlab, Jakob +MacFarlane, Asymptote or Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis; and artists who take on architectural space like Anselm Kiefer, Frank Stella and Bill Viola, or architects who are interested in art, like Peter Eisenman.