Architecture Book

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Review

...extensively explores the common as well as more exotic architectural detailing that so often gets lost in the pages and photographs of the design media. -- RIBA, Nov.2006

Details in Contemporary Architecture is a handsome and readable layman's overview to adventurous and innovative new design in America. -- Architectural Record, June 2008

Detailed projects supply cross, longitudinal, tabletop section, floor, and framing plans, models, interior and exterior, and street-level views. The 190 sumptuous color photographs and capacious illustrations help one to understand each unique project. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. -- Choice, September 2007

The selected projects, ranging from a graceful pedestrian bridge to a mammoth sports arena, are all exemplars of close architect/engineer collaboration, and they are as astounding for their technical wizardry as for their aesthetic merit. ..This volume, along with the series's first volume by these authors, Details in Contemporary Architecture, is highly recommended for practicing architects, engineers, and students in the field. -- Library Journal, June 2008

Product Description

Details of Contemporary Architecture is the first issue of AsBuilt, a new series from Princeton Architectural Press dedicated to formal and material innovation in architecture and the application of new technologies and materials. AsBuilt is dedicated to the proposition that architects learn best from other architects; the purpose of the series is to reaffirm building as the principal intellectual activity of architecture, to collapse the divide between theory and practice.

Projects are selected from current architecture in the United States and Canada, including work by architects from abroad collaborating with North American teams, according to a combination of criteria including development and application of new materials, inventive use of traditional materials; innovative building technologies; unusual building types, structure, function, and technological systems; as well as creative solutions to problems of architectural detailing.

Details of Contemporary Architecture includes twenty five projects with original construction drawings, photos and text by Alsop Architects, Archi-tectonics, Ball-Nogués Design, Behnisch Architects, David Chipperfield Architects, Daly Genik Architects, Studio Gang Architects, Garofalo Architects, Gehry Partners, Hariri & Hariri Architecture, Herzog & De Meuron, Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates, Steven Holl Architects, Jones Studio, Morphosis, Olsen Sundberg Kundig Allen, OMA/LMN, Dominique Perrault Architects, Pugh + Scarpa Architects, RoTo Architects, Schwartz Silver Architects, SHoP PC, Trahan Architects, Rafael Viñoly Architects and Weiss Manfredi Architects.

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