Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN num: 9780500285190
ISBN number: 0500285195
Label: Thames & Hudson
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 392
Printing Date: December 30, 2004
Publishing house: Thames & Hudson
Sale Popularity Level: 809715
Studio: Thames & Hudson
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Part manual, part manifesto, part monograph: a comprehensive look at the methods and techniques of Spuybroek's hugely inventive architecture.
In the avant-garde of digital architects, Rotterdam-based Lars Spuybroek and his studio NOX are among the few who have completed built projects. Before the advent of large-scale processing power, digital modeling, and computer-aided manufacturing, NOX's structures would have been unbuildable. Today, the work is taken seriously on an international scale as the possibilities for construction and spatial innovation attain new levels of feasibility.
Written and compiled largely by the architect, the book reveals the inspirations, insights, and techniques that allow him to conceive—and build—such experimental work. There is a complete documentation of NOX's oeuvre, including built and unbuilt work—some twenty-three projects in total; essays by leading critics Manual De Landa, Detlef Mertins, Andrew Benjamin, Brian Massumi, and Arjen Mulder; and explanatory texts by Spuybroek that link the projects together.
Many of the illustrations in the book have been specially created, making accessible for the very first time the complex strategies employed by Spuybroek. This in turn will make the publication an invaluable resource for both students and practicing designers. Over 800 illustrations, 400 in color.
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Not much of a writer, but i've been using this book for awhile now, and it has been source of inspiration for few of my school projects. These guys are truly innovative.
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The work of Lars Spuybroek has been and still is found to be very controversial within the architectural discourse. Especially the buidlings he designs seem to evoke a lot of discusion and are often tagged as 'silly, formless chunks of mass'.
Please don't let yourself be distracted by the somewhat awkward designs, but learn a lot from his methods! They are very interessting and can help you in your morhphogenetic process.
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this is the best book i have ever saw. i'm a student for architecture and it helped me with my studies. i showed the book to my college prophesors and they agree with me, that is a fantastic book that all should see it and learn from it. their are wonerfull ideas in it.
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Lars pops on his intergalactic avant-garde cape, clenches, groans and plops out a collection of the most cringe-worthy blobs this side of hollywood.
First year architecture student: **swoon** "Will we ever see him again?"
Why yes, on every second-hand bookshop shelf in the galaxy...
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