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Material Transfers : Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture by Francoise Bollack (2020, Hardcover)

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PublisherMonacelli Press, Incorporated
ISBN-101580935435
ISBN-139781580935432
eBay Product ID (ePID)7038653960

Product Key Features

Book TitleMaterial Transfers : Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory / Contemporary (1945-), General, Criticism, Methods & Materials
Publication Year2020
IllustratorYes
GenreArchitecture
AuthorFrancoise Bollack
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight33.1 Oz
Item Length10.3 in
Item Width8.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-941166
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"It's a stunner that makes the case for reworking old forms in the modern vernacular. . . . Their buildings are beautiful - and they illustrate her thinking lucidly." --Architects + Artisans, "It's a stunner that makes the case for reworking old forms in the modern vernacular. . . . Their buildings are beautiful - and they illustrate her thinking lucidly." --Architects + Artisans "The French-trained Bollack has done considerable restoration work, but Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary is an attempt to redefine the meaning of contextual design. Rather than engaging in a century-old battle between modern and traditional - the angst of replica versus invention, Bollack suggests we discard an 'outdated moral opprobrium.'" --New England Diary, 'It's a stunner that makes the case for reworking old forms in the modern vernacular. . . . Their buildings are beautiful - and they illustrate her thinking lucidly.' - Architects + Artisans 'The French-trained Bollack has done considerable restoration work, but Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary is an attempt to redefine the meaning of contextual design. Rather than engaging in a century-old battle between modern and traditional - the angst of replica versus invention, Bollack suggests we discard an 'outdated moral opprobrium.' - New England Diary, "It's a stunner that makes the case for reworking old forms in the modern vernacular. . . . Their buildings are beautiful - and they illustrate her thinking lucidly." - Architects + Artisans "The French-trained Bollack has done considerable restoration work, but Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary is an attempt to redefine the meaning of contextual design. Rather than engaging in a century-old battle between modern and traditional - the angst of replica versus invention, Bollack suggests we discard an 'outdated moral opprobrium.'" - New England Diary
Dewey Decimal721.04
SynopsisA provocative examination of the connections between contemporary expression in architecture and traditional materials and forms Architect, architectural historian, and preservationist Françoise Bollack presents eighteen projects that use traditional materials to build contemporary forms or use modern materials to build traditional forms, blurring the boundary between tradition and modernity in architecture. Bollack rejects the modernist taboo against imitation and precedent, tracing the history of adaptive and imitative design from the Renaissance to the Greek and Gothic revivals and to the nineteenth-century modular cast-iron facades that Philip Johnson considered "the basis for modern design." The book examines projects in the US, Europe, and Japan, encompassing a broad range of building types: residential, hospitality, commercial and retail, and cultural spaces. All share an intriguing, even radical, approach to reinterpreting traditional forms and materials. Humble thatch moves beyond the farmhouse roof to clad the walls of a Danish environmental center; a photographic image of a Parisian façade becomes a scrim on the façade of a new building; the ghost of an ancient Italian basilica is outlined in wire mesh. Among the featured architects are Kengo Kuma, architect of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic stadium; MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch firm; Lacaton & Vassal and Chartier/Corbasson in France; Skene Catling de la Peña in the UK; Morris Adjmi in the USA; Max Dudler in Germany; Dortre Mandrup in Denmark; and Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland., A provocative examination of the connections between contemporary expression in architecture and traditional materials and forms
LC Classification NumberNA500

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