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Eric Owen Moss

Author : Paola Giaconia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Eric Owen Moss written by Paola Giaconia and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decade Eric Owen Moss built a critical fortune with a series of elaborations of the de-constructivist theories of the 1990s. Considered one of the most innovative North American architects working today, Eric Owen Moss is known for reinventing spaces for commercial uses and performing arts facilities. Moss plans have breathed new life into marginal urban Los Angeles areas such as his celebrated sequence of buildings in Culver City's Hayden Tract.This monograph features 250 illustrations-including the Wedgewood Holly Complex, the Beehive and the Box. Eric Owen Moss opened his office in Los Angeles in 1973. In addition to practicing, he has held professorial chairs at Yale, Harvard, and his current position is at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Gnostic Architecture

Author : Eric Owen Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Architecture written by Eric Owen Moss and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive statement of Eric Owen Moss's design theory, Gnostic Architecture seeks to expand the discussion of contemporary architecture beyond debates over style or ideology. It does so, however, not by turning to conventional site analysis or fashionable intellectual trends for support but by emphasizing the architect's personal approach to the act of building. "Gnostic architecture," Moss says, "is not about faith in a movement, a methodology, a process, a technique, or technology. It is a strategy for keeping architecture in a perpetual state of motion." While Moss's gnostic approach keeps the practice of architecture on the move, it nevertheless focuses on fundamental questions that face all architects, questions that, as he says, separate architects from those who just happen to do architecture. Gnosticism allows the architect to ignore the contradictions and confusions encountered along the path that is the practice of architecture, so that he or she may rely on individual, internally derived design methods. The measure of an architect's integrity is thus dependent on his or her own internal compass and not on external factors. The book, with its unique, trapezoidal shape and suggestive visual character, gives uncanny material expression to Moss's gnosticism.

Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585

Author : Eric Owen Moss
Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
ISBN 13 : 9781940743165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585 written by Eric Owen Moss and published by ORO Applied Research + Design. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a unique look into the mind and method of one of the most important architects working today. For nearly three decades, Eric Owen Moss Architects has been at work transforming the former industrial area of the Hayden Tract in Culver City, California into one of the most highly concentrated centers of architectural experimentation in the world. This book looks into the mind and method of one of the most important architects working today through a presentation of three schemes designed for a single site in the Hayden Tract since 1991

Lawson-Westen House

Author : James Steele
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714832593
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Lawson-Westen House written by James Steele and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lawson-Westen House was designed for a couple who cook together and entertain frequently. The vertical funnel of space above the food preparation area that results, is a dominant form in the building's composition and one of the major ordering devices in the building's circulation system. It is also an extraordinarily complex geometric feat, relying on shifting grids and subtle subdivisions, revealing a geometrically-based order of Moss' own devising. Incomprehensible at a simple glance, the interior of the Lawson-Western House is exhilarating and mentally exhausting at the same time.

The Nanjing Charter

Author : Eric Owen Moss Architects
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947198036
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Nanjing Charter written by Eric Owen Moss Architects and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: The Nanjing Charter is a statement of principles and practices for urbanism for "one person at a time" designed by "one architect at a time." This Charter is a riposte to the Athens Charter of 1933, which laid down the law for the modernist city. In a remarkable series of drawings for a four-part city in China, Moss tests the line between theory and practice with provocative results. Embracing this ambiguity, a number of "experts" in urban design, history, and theory provide commentary, arguing with Moss-and one another-about the meaning of this splendidly elusive work.

Eric Owen Moss

Author : Eric Owen Moss
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Eric Owen Moss written by Eric Owen Moss and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating polyhedrons, bent pipes, curved wood, undulating glass, and other organic shapes into industrial architecture, Moss has constructed a number of buildings in Los Angeles, Culver City, and other cities in California, Germany, and elsewhere. The buildings are depicted here in full-page photos, with many views of each and a short description of the site. Plans of future or imaginary projects are contained in a concluding section. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Pamphlet Architecture 15: War and Architecture

Author : Lebbeus Woods
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568980119
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Pamphlet Architecture 15: War and Architecture written by Lebbeus Woods and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and Architecture is a timely and moving response by architect Lebbeus Woods to the bombing of Sarajevo. With text in both English and Croatian, accompanied by the author's exquisitely drawn, hauntingly beautiful proposals, the book is both dedicated and addressed to the citizens of this ravaged city. Lebbeus Woods has long been fascinated by the intimate ties between architecture and violence. He identifies the two predominant patterns for rebuilding cities following catastrophic destruction: restoring the city exactly to its previous, "historical" state; or "erasing" the remains of the city to construct a new utopia. These, he argues, are twin forms of denial. Woods draws an analogy to the process of biological and emotional healing, presenting architectural forms that act as "injections," "scabs," "scars," and "new tissue," within the complex organism of a city. "Only by facing the insanity of willful destruction," he argues, "can reason begin to believe again in itself."

Warped Space

Author : Anthony Vidler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262720410
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Warped Space written by Anthony Vidler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century. Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by digitalization and virtual reality. Anthony Vidler is concerned with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space, is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin. Focusing on current conditions of displacement and placelessness, he examines ways in which contemporary artists and architects have produced new forms of spatial warping. The discussion ranges from theorists such as Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists such as Vito Acconci, Mike Kelley, Martha Rosler, and Rachel Whiteread. Finally, Vidler looks at the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry, Coop Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis, and Eric Owen Moss in the light of new digital techniques that, while relying on traditional perspective, have radically transformed the composition, production, and experience—perhaps even the subject itself—of architecture.

L.A. [Ten]

Author : Stephen John Phillips
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book L.A. [Ten] written by Stephen John Phillips and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a casual, witty, and approachable retrospective on the characters, environment, and cultural history of L.A. architecture as remembered through a series of oral history interviews with the architects conducted by Stephen Phillips alongside Wim de Wit, Christopher Alexander, and the students of the Cal Poly L.A. Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design.

Origins of Architectural Pleasure

Author : Grant Hildebrand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520215054
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Origins of Architectural Pleasure written by Grant Hildebrand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging study discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appealing--and useful for survival--from ancient times to the present. 119 photos. 6 line figures.

Eric Owen Moss

Author : Eric Owen Moss
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 1568980337
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Eric Owen Moss written by Eric Owen Moss and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes construction photos, working drawings, trod Moss's sketches.

Zaha Hadid

Author : Zaha Hadid
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985367
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Zaha Hadid written by Zaha Hadid and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zaha Hadid's highly inventive and seemingly unbuildable designs have defied conventional ideas of architectural space and construction. The BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is no exception. It is the heart of the BMW factory complexthe dynamic focal point of the entire plant that visually, physically, and experientially sustains a sense of animation and motion. With an audacious and abstracted geometry of forms and lines, the BMW Central Building challenges the notion of building as static and is definitive evidence of architecture as art. Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building, the seventh volume in the Source Books in Architecture series, provides a comprehensive look at this instant modern masterpiece.

Robot House

Author : Peter Testa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500293447
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Robot House written by Peter Testa and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robotics is the fastest-growing and most exciting area of development in architecture and architectural education for a generation, offering new paradigms for design and fabrication. Schools and practices around the world are engaging robotics and this publication offers new insights into the full design potential of their application. Robot House features projects produced by one of the most innovative robotics design studios in the world, often interacting with a wide range of technologies from motion capture to material science - a realm far beyond conventional 3D modeling and the capabilities of 3D printing. The book has three central sections: Techniques, which sets out the fields and the thinking that underlie the new uses for robotics; Projects, which offers detailed presentations that explore how these principles can be applied and augmented through interactive prototypes and working models; and Platforms, which presents the working tools for used for this new genre of improvisational robotics through specially drawn technical illustrations. The introduction frames the current developments in the history of architectural innovation, and the reference section includes a glossary and diagrams.

Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Knowlton Hall

Author : Mack Scogin
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985213
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Knowlton Hall written by Mack Scogin and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some buildings are famous. Others deserve to be, but in their modesty remain satisfied to stand simply as excellent works of architecture. Such is the case with Ohio State University School or Architecture's recently completed Knowlton School of Architecture. Designed by the internationally respected firmMack Scogin Merrill Elam, Knowlton manages to project both a monumental physicality and a sense of subdued elegance. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects/Knowlton Hall provides acomprehensive look at this impressive new work using sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs. As with all of the books in the Source Books in Architecture series, it is accompanied by commentaries from the architects and critics who explore both the technical andcontextual elements of the work.

Morphosis

Author : Peter Cook (Architect, Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Morphosis written by Peter Cook (Architect, Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Confederacy of Heretics

Author : Todd Gannon
Publisher : J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781606062630
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book A Confederacy of Heretics written by Todd Gannon and published by J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 2013 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Confederacy of Heretics examines the explosion of activity associated with the Architecture Gallery, the first gallery in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to architecture. Instigated by Thom Mayne in the fall of 1979, the Architecture Gallery staged ten exhibitions in as many weeks by both young and established Los Angeles practitioners, featuring the work of Eugene Kupper, Roland Coate, Jr., Frederick Fisher, Frank Dimster, Frank Gehry, Peter de Bretteville, Morphosis (Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi), Studio Works (Craig Hodgetts and Robert Mangurian), and Eric Owen Moss. Another young architect, Coy Howard, opened the events with a lecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, which hosted talks by each exhibiting architect. In an unprecedented move by the popular press, the events were chronicled in weekly reviews by the critic John Dreyfuss in the Los Angeles Times. Gathering an array of original drawings, models, photographs, video recordings, and commentary alongside new assessments by current scholars, A Confederacy of Heretics aims neither to canonize the participating architects nor to consecrate their unorthodox activities. Rather, the book re-examines the early work of some of Los Angeles' most well-known architects, charts the development of their most potent design techniques, and documents a crucial turning point in Los Angeles architecture, a time when Angeleno architecture culture shifted from working local variations on imported themes to exporting highly original disciplinary innovations with global reach. Taken together, the exhibition, symposium, and catalog that comprise A Confederacy of Heretics offer a unique lens through which to analyze a pivotal moment in the development of late twentieth-century architecture.

Heteropolis

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Heteropolis written by Charles Jencks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age dominated by nationalism and ethnic conflict, Charles Jencks argues that these reactionary tendencies can be countered by an equally powerful drive - heterophilia: the love of difference, the desire to seek out new experience and curiosity. All of these are essential to the creation of a new form of city, the heteropolis, epitomized by Los Angeles. With over one hundred ethnic groups, forty different lifestyle clusters, eighty languages spoken in the schools, and extraordinarily different flora and fauna, Los Angeles' diversity has now become one of its main drawing points, and problems. Precariously balanced between civil unrest and the creative enjoyment of difference, it is something towards which other world cities, with their mass-migration and global trade are heading. The hetero-architecture of Los Angeles suggests a way beyond the present impasse between the fundamentalists and the multiculturalists, a third position which diffuses confrontation with creative displacement and inclusive eclecticism. The strange beauty of hetero-architecture embraces variety, its informality allows marginalized groups to feel at home and its unusual metaphors suggest our connection to the natural world. Frank Gehry, Eric Owen Moss, Morphosis, Frank Israel and Charles Moore are its visible leaders, but there is also a vernacular and funk version of the genre as well as the populist versions of Jon Jerde and Disneyland. The philosophy of hetero-architecture accepts difference as a necessity and turns it into a virtue with an informal aesthetic at once polyglot, abstract and representational - that is radically eclectic and inclusive in an understated way. The 'L.A. Style', as it is known, bears affinities with other aesthetics such as the Wabi and Sabi style of the Japanese. With many world cities now facing increasing pluralization, the heteropolis is bound to become a major urban form of the future.