Architecture and Beauty: Conversations with Architects about a
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Beauty provides the dynamic catalyst for sixteen very charged and
individual discussions about architecture and design. Based on a
series of interviews by Yael Reisner, Architecture and
Beauty has been developed into sixteen individual
chapter/portraits, written up by Fleur Watson, that eloquently
recount the thoughts of some of the world?s most creative
designers. Each interviewee candidly expresses their beliefs and
experiences and espouses their own distinctive position on
aesthetics. Offering up rare and often highly personal insights
into the minds of today?s most progressive and high-profile
architects, the book is lusciously illustrated with the works that
the architects discuss.
Featured architects: Will Alsop, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Peter Cook,
Odile Decq, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Mark Goulthorpe,
Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, Greg Lynn, Tom Mayne, Juhani Pallasmaa,
Gaetano Pesce, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf Prix and Lebbeus Woods.
Author: Yael Reisner (Bartlett-UCL)
Format: Hardback, 264 pages, 214mm x 246mm, 1116 g
Published: 2010, John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States
Genre: Architecture
Beauty provides the dynamic catalyst for sixteen very charged and
individual discussions about architecture and design. Based on a
series of interviews by Yael Reisner, Architecture and
Beauty has been developed into sixteen individual
chapter/portraits, written up by Fleur Watson, that eloquently
recount the thoughts of some of the world?s most creative
designers. Each interviewee candidly expresses their beliefs and
experiences and espouses their own distinctive position on
aesthetics. Offering up rare and often highly personal insights
into the minds of today?s most progressive and high-profile
architects, the book is lusciously illustrated with the works that
the architects discuss.
Featured architects: Will Alsop, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Peter Cook,
Odile Decq, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Mark Goulthorpe,
Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, Greg Lynn, Tom Mayne, Juhani Pallasmaa,
Gaetano Pesce, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf Prix and Lebbeus Woods.