URBAN PRESENCES: Nio Architecten Complete Works 2000 – 2011

Description

The Dutch-based office of NIO Architecten has increasingly gained attention over recent years thanks to a number of projects carrying such names as ‘The Cyclops’, ‘The Amazing Whale Jaw’, and ‘David and The Hulk’. By no means limited to one particular type of architecture, the office has produced a diverse combination of projects ranging from factories, bridges, bus shelters to shopping centres around the globe. ‘Urban Presence’ features the complete works of the office’s founding father, Maurice Nio (1959 Italy) and offers an insight into his work of the past decade.

CONTENTS

Silvio Carta: Disquieting Presences

Landscape Vitality – Spring the Territory

• The Cyclops
• Flower Power
• From the Cities of Nine
• Ground Control
• Midnight Oil
• A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
• IL Sale Marino
• The Threat of Liverpool
• Volcano High
• The Wave And the Whirlwind
• IL Giardino di Limoni

Stefano Milani: Modi Operandi. Notes on the Work of Maurice Nio
Identities – Disquieting Presences

• Betty Blue
• Breathless
• Coexistence
• David and the Hulk
• The Green Coblin
• The Hulk
• Sensing the Waves
• Point Zero
• Wild Orchid

Hans Ibelings: Building Fictions

Beyond Architecture – How to create Amazing Infranstructure

• The Amazing Whale Jaw
• The Aquarians
• I’m No Angel
• Kiss the Bride
• The Monfish and the Waterwolf
• Moon Knight
• Prayer of Shadow Prodection
• Touch of Evi
• X-men

Rethinking Urban – New Ways to Thjink about the City

• Black Mothafucka
• The Eleventh House
• Heaven and Hell
• House Wide Shut
• New Territories
• Paradise for Two
• Scientia Intuitiva
• TwoFace
• WWIIOrmhole

Bart Lootsma: Waste Incinator, Twente, The Netherlands

Unspeakable – Shaping Thinks that cannot be told

• Maddame Butterfly
• Dark Matter
• Eat This
• The Fire Emperor
• Snake Space
• Wait Until Dark
• Watermark

Maurice Nio + Joan Almekinders: Curriculum Vitae

288 pages, color ills / 19,5 x 27 cm / Chinese, English