THE FORCE IS IN THE MIND The Making of Architecture

Description

How and where is architecture created today? Where do architects find their inspiration? What design tools do they use? This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at twenty high-profile international architecture firms and provides authentic glimpses of the architects’ individual creative worlds. Rather than a collection of glossy portraits, the volume offers a step-by-step account of the design process, made vivid and three-dimensional by “snapshots” of the studios and texts with quotations from conversations with the architects.

CONTENTS

OF TOOLS AND INSPIRATION. The Economies of Architectural Creativity / Elke Kransy

ARCHITECTURAL FIELDWORK: TWENTY STUDIO VISITS

-ALVAR AALTO, -LINA BO BARDI, -BOW-WOW, -HERMANN CZECH, -DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO, -EDGE DESIGN INSTITUTE, -YONA FRIEDMAN, -ANTONI GAUDÍ, -LUX GUYER, -STEVEN HOLL, -UNSTUDIO, -LACATON & VASSAL, -RUDOLF OLGIATI, -CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, -R & SIE(N), -SCHWALM-THEISS, -KARL SCHWANZER, -SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL SOM, -THE JERDE PARTNERSHIP, -VENTURI SCOTT BROWN & ASSOCIATES

SNAPSHOTS

TOOL STORIES

• The Means and the end / Robert Temel
• …Rounger than Giotto’s O /Gerhand Vana

A LITTLE LEXICON OF TOOLS

188 pages / 19,50 x 25,50 cm