Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects

Paperback, 416 pages

English language

Published by The MIT Press.

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978-0-262-13443-9
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A prominent architect considers his contemporaries—James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Herzog & De Meuron—in a lavishly illustrated series of profiles.

The internationally acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo is known to be a courageous architect. His major works include the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art and Architecture, and the Potzdammer Platz Hotel in Berlin. Now Moneo will be known as a daring critic as well. In this book, he looks at eight of his contemporaries—all architects of international stature—and discusses the theoretical positions, technical innovations, and design contributions of each. Moneo's discussion of these eight architects—James Stirling, Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and the partnership of Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron—has the colloquial, engaging tone of a series of lectures on modern …

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Subjects

  • Architectural structure & design
  • History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
  • Individual architects
  • Criticism
  • Design & Drafting
  • Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation
  • International Architecture - General
  • Individual Architect
  • Architecture
  • 20th century
  • 21st century
  • Architects
  • Architecture, Modern