Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava

Author: Alexander Tzonis

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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"Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim in recent years with his breathtaking feats of engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms. Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works comprehensively examines this contemporary master's career, beginning with his education in Valencia and Zurich, and continuing with the origins and development of his celebrated body of work, including the architect's furniture designs, sculpture, and drawings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava

Author: Santiago Calatrava

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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"There are very few designers in this century, a century dominated by specialization and fragmentation, who can be called universal. Santiago Calatrava is one of these few. In his numerous buildings, bridges, engineering projects, sculptures, and furniture he has succeeded in developing a unique poetics of morphology which meshes structure and movement - a poetics of movement - and offers a cultural vision that overcomes the abyss separating art from science and technology. This publication is in conjunction with a major exhibition, of the same title, held to inaugurate a new building for the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. While the emphasis is on Calatrava's architecture and bridges, his prowess as a sculptor and draftsman is also represented. Conception of the exhibition was by Alexander Tzonis, who also served as curator. The ample illustrations cover major projects from throughout Calatrava's career." --

Handbook of Research on Form and Morphogenesis in Modern Architectural Contexts
Handbook of Research on Form and Morphogenesis in Modern Architectural Contexts

Author: D'Uva, Domenico

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-02-23

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1522539948

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As architectural designs continue to push boundaries, there is more exploration into the bound shape of architecture within the limits of spaces made for human usability and interaction. The Handbook of Research on Form and Morphogenesis in Modern Architectural Contexts provides emerging research on the process of architectural form-finding as an effort to balance perceptive efficiency with functionality. While highlighting topics such as architectural geometry, reverse modeling, and digital fabrication, this book details the geometric process that forms the shape of a building. This publication is a vital resource for scholars, IT professionals, engineers, architects, and business managers seeking current research on the development and creation of architectural design.

Santiago Calatrava : works in progress
Santiago Calatrava : works in progress

Author: Luca Molinari

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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Santiago Calatrava. With more than ten years having passed since the 'case' of Calatrava was introduced into the international debate, it remains as relevant as ever to ask the same questions posed back then regarding an artistic personality and oeuvre still capable of provoking such heated and contradictory reactions from critics, the general public, and contemporary architectural culture alike. The extremism of the positions assumed by those faced with Calatrava's work compels us inevitably to investigate a phenomenon that intersects with the redefinition of the relationship between art and technology, or more specifically, between architecture and engineering, not to mention the crisis of the professions and their social credibility.

Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture
Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture

Author: Donald Leslie Johnson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1136640630

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Makers of 20th-Century Modern Architecture is an indispensable reference book for the scholar, student, architect or layman interested in the architects who initiated, developed, or advanced modern architecture. The book is amply illustrated and features the most prominent and influential people in 20th-century modernist architecture including Wright, Eisenman, Mies van der Rohe and Kahn. It describes the milieu in which they practiced their art and directs readers to information on the life and creative activities of these founding architects and their disciples. The profiles of individual architects include critical analysis of their major buildings and projects. Each profile is completed by a comprehensive bibliography.

Great Glass Buildings
Great Glass Buildings

Author: Peter Hyatt

Publisher: Images Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781864701128

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In 'Great Glass Buildings", Peter and Jennifer Hyatt present fifty exemplary modern projects that explore a number of theories about the nature, mystique and attraction of glass in the architecture of recent years. Variously performing roles that include giftwrap, lightweight armour, transmitter and insulator, glass began its re-emergence as an architectural force during the 1990s, as a symbol of new modernism. Advances in glass-making and construction technology and the advent of structural glazing, fixing systems, glass coatings and waterproof connections have transformed the ambitious dreams of the past into reality. Including projects by Foster and Partners, Murphy Jahn, Santiago Calatrava, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano and many others, this book reveals the complex nature of glass in today's architecture. SELLING POINTS: - The latest in Images Designing With/For Series - A unique focus on the work of renowned contemporary architects from around the world showcasing their projects designed with glass Exceptional full-colour photographs