Ecstatic Architecture by Maggie Toy

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Ecstatic Architecture by Maggie Toy

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Résumé

For most of this century, since the modern movement took hold, there has been a desperate need for architects to justify every design they make, every line they draw. This text examines the backlash, whereby top architects are not seeking to theorise their work but to enjoy it.

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Ecstatic Architecture by Maggie Toy

Today there is a broad trend towards an architecture that could be called ecstatic - partly motivated by pure architectural ideas pushed to their limits and a shift from functional concerns to sensual ones. Ecstatic Architecture is stimulating, holistic and overpowering; its primary contemporary monument is Frank Gehry's New Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa. Ecstatic Architecture has opened up architectural thought and made links with historic building. The term encompasses buildings widely distant in function and time, from cave art to the new cinema centre in Dresden, from explicitly erotic architecture to buildings which have a spiritual role, from conceptual and cybernetic artefacts to pure architecture. It suggests comparisons between the current practice of leading architects such as Hans Hollein, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Nigel Coates and Egyptian, Baroque and Art Nouveau architecture. Essays examining the historic and philosophical implications are complemented by major projects in the genre by Frank Gehry, Will Alsop, Ron Arad, Odile Decq, Eric Owen Moss and Shin Takamatsu. Major rhetorical tropes of Ecstatic Architecture are clarified in two extensive photo essays by Charles Jencks. The surprise is that Ecstatic Architecture links such widely divergent strands and forces us to reconsider architecture in a new key.

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SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780471983989
ISBN 10 0471983985
Titre Ecstatic Architecture
Auteur Maggie Toy
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Année de publication 1999-04-15
Nombre de pages 176
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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