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Book Antoine Predock

Download or read book Antoine Predock written by Geoffrey Baker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the work of Antoine Predock, an American architect based in new Mexico, this monograph includes previously unpublished images and line drawings, which should present a greater insight into the working methods of the architect.

Book Roadcut

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  • Author : Christopher Curtis Mead
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780826350091
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Roadcut written by Christopher Curtis Mead and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural historian Christopher Mead traces Antoine Predock's development over forty years from early work in Albuquerque to twenty-first-century projects like Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

Book Ride  Antoine Predock

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  • Author : Antoine Predock
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2024-04-23
  • ISBN : 0847899519
  • Pages : 583 pages

Download or read book Ride Antoine Predock written by Antoine Predock and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award for Lifetime Achievement and the AIA Gold Medal, Antoine Predock was an icon of American architecture. This book is the comprehensive consideration of his life’s work. A trailblazing original, Predock was his own tour de force. In his work, steel, glass, and concrete were combined with natural materials to celebrate modern life. Initially considered a regionalist architect—one who had captured the power of the desert—he went on to re-establish the importance of place in architecture in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, Luis Barragan, and Louis Kahn. He made experience—what Kahn would have called spiritual experience—once again important in architecture. As critic for Time magazine, writing of Predock’s work, Kurt Andersen observed: “[it is] tough and sensual, fabulously imagined, altogether persuasive.” Featuring the wide range of Predock’s designed and built structures, including houses, schools, hotels, parks, theaters, nature centers, and more, this is an all-encompassing career/life “memoirograph.” It charts the architect’s journey from his beginnings, to his early days as a professional starting his own studio with the groundbreaking La Luz Community project, up to the present day, including the landmark Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The chronological presentation includes Predock’s travel, travel sketches, and kinesthetic pursuits, encapsulating a life in architecture. Rich and multifaceted, like the work itself, this book showcases 3,500 photographs and features more than twenty gatefolds, which open to express the full scope of this modern master.

Book Antoine Predock  Architect 2

Download or read book Antoine Predock Architect 2 written by Antoine Predock and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antoine Predock's trademark bold forms-often incorporating references to the natural elements as well as to myth and ritual-have made him an architect of international renown. This important new book follows the highly successful "Antoine Predock, Architect Vol. I" and documents his work from 1994 to the present, including the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, California, and the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Florida.

Book Architectural Journeys

Download or read book Architectural Journeys written by Antoine Predock and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features drawings, photo collages and rough sketches made by the author during the course of his travels. The drawings usually feature buildings and architecture, quickly sketched to capture the spirit of the place and the moment.

Book Antoine Predock  Architect

Download or read book Antoine Predock Architect written by Antoine Predock and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the beginning, Antoine Predock's architecture has drawn from his surroundings: the desert Southwest, with its sparse beauty, its special qualities of light and air." "This book presents, chronologically, twenty-nine of Predock's most important buildings. In the text, he discusses the pertinent aspects and idiosyncrasies of each scheme. The organization thus shows the architect's evolution, starting with the early projects in Albuquerque that culminated in his Rio Grande Nature Center, an interpretative learning and exhibit center in a wetlands zone. In the 1980s, Predock's commissions spread farther afield; his best-known project from this time is perhaps the celebrated Nelson Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University. Recently, he has completed the Hotel Santa Fe at Euro Disney, outside Paris - the first realization of his unique idiom in Europe - and the powerful American Heritage Center and Art Museum in Laramie, Wyoming." "Private houses, including the landmark Zuber and Venice residences, are shown, as well as housing complexes, hotels, educational buildings, arts projects, and public structures. Predock's own words set the tone for the book, tracing his career from the exceptional 1967 La Luz Community in Albuquerque through his work today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Antoine Predock  Architect 4

Download or read book Antoine Predock Architect 4 written by Antoine Predock and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock is generally acknowledged as the premier architect practicing in the Southwest, although he also has projects in Denmark, France, Spain, and Morocco. He is known for a philosophical ethos that does not privilege architecture over environment, but fosters a relationship in which a building is analogous to the landscape in which it is set.Predock's use of such natural materials as adobe and sand-colored stone demonstrate an appreciation for local historical precedent as well as a concern for environmental soundness; however, he is in the vanguard in his use of the most technologically advanced methods of construction. Drawing from the pulse of the land, Predock's work embraces uniqueness of site, referencing local history, culture, myths, and people. This monograph features his latest work, including Highland Ponds, in Aspen; Austin City Hall, in Texas; the Tacoma Art Museum; and Shadow House, in Santa Fe, among others.Antoine Predock has taught at universities in Italy and Argentina, as well as at Harvard University, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and UCLA. He has won many awards for his work, including the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architecture (AIA), and the Gran Premio Internacional de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires.

Book Drawing Into Architecture

Download or read book Drawing Into Architecture written by Christopher Curtis Mead and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 172 sketches, many published here for the first time, surveys nearly fifty years of Antoine Predock's work.

Book Antoine Predock architect

Download or read book Antoine Predock architect written by Antoine Predock and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mockbee Coker

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  • Author : Lori Ryker
  • Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9781568980423
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Mockbee Coker written by Lori Ryker and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Samuel Mockbee and Coleman Coker "offers many lessons for projects of all scales and locations. It is an architecture that both celebrates and transcends its regional influences". -- Progressive Architecture

Book New Stone Architecture

Download or read book New Stone Architecture written by David Dernie and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of stone construction and the nature of stone as a material. Aimed at practising architects and students, this study describes the new technologies that make the new stone forms possible. This is followed by 33 case studies from around the world.

Book Turtle Creek House

Download or read book Turtle Creek House written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studio KO

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  • Author : Karl Fornier
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2017-10-10
  • ISBN : 0847860507
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Studio KO written by Karl Fornier and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut monograph on the highly sought-after French architecture duo renowned for a signature aesthetic infused with clean lines and raw minimalism. Founded by French architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty in 2000, Studio KO has quickly secured its status in the world of architectural design. A refreshing modernist aesthetic imbued with subtle references to history and culture defines their work. While Marty and Fournier are best known for their minimalist villas set in awe-inspiring landscapes, recent commissions also include restaurants, boutiques, and hotels across New York, Paris, and London. The first monograph dedicated to Studio KO, this beautifully illustrated book spotlights a diverse array of their work, from private residences in breathtaking scenery, ranging from the Moroccan mountains to Provence and Brittany in France, to the highly anticipated Yves Saint Laurent Museum, due to open in Marrakech in 2017. Boasting never-before-seen architectural plans, personal photos, and sumptuous photographs of finished spaces, this book offers a fascinating look at the most in-demand architectural designers of today.

Book Making Modern Paris

Download or read book Making Modern Paris written by Christopher Curtis Mead and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.

Book Radical Suburbs

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  • Author : Amanda Kolson Hurley
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2019-04-09
  • ISBN : 1948742373
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Radical Suburbs written by Amanda Kolson Hurley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these, such as the co-housing commune of Old Economy, Pennsylvania; a tiny-house anarchist community in Piscataway, New Jersey; a government-planned garden city in Greenbelt, Maryland; a racially integrated subdivision (before the Fair Housing Act) in Trevose, Pennsylvania; experimental Modernist enclaves in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the mixed-use, architecturally daring Reston, Virginia. Inside Radical Suburbs you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.

Book Antoine Predock 3

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  • Author : Antoine Predock
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Antoine Predock 3 written by Antoine Predock and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Antoine Predock's practice is international, his roots are in the American southwest. His architecture draws from the elemental forces in any location, but in the desert it draws from the monolithic topography, expansive cerulean sky, and sparse geometric flora. Known for the way he incorporates references to the elemental forces--air, earth, fire, water--Predock's bold, fluid structures evoke the mythic nature that is rooted in regional culture and forms. This is the first book to put together all of the extraordinary houses designed by Antoine Predock. Each of the twelve remarkable private houses featured here--ten from Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and two from California--harmoniously blend with their landscape in ways for which Predock is now so renowned. Characterized by environmentally conscious design, the houses display both exquisite refinement and an ingenious level of invention.

Book The Architecture of Bart Prince

Download or read book The Architecture of Bart Prince written by Christopher Curtis Mead and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a look at new buildings by Bart Prince, this book examines the work of a uniquely American contemporary architect. The work of Bart Prince is recognized internationally for both its seminal creative vision and for carrying on an American tradition of individualism in architecture originating with Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Bruce Goff. Prince shares with these pioneers a fundamental way of thinking about modern American architecture, which in his work he has combined with a firm belief in the experiential impact of a building to render a contemporary style all his own. Originally published a decade ago, this updated version includes five new houses, demonstrating the architect’s maturing style and continued commitment to creating transcendent experiences in manipulated space. Stunning photographs and floor plans bring the reader as close as possible to experiencing these uniquely formed, magnificent buildings. A remarkable collaboration between the author, the photographer, and the architect, The Architecture of Bart Prince is the only comprehensive introduction to one of the most creative architects practicing in America today.