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From Basel : Herzog & de Meuron /

"The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identifying the essential ideas, professional ethics, and development of their architectural practice, established in 1978. The biographies of both archite...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pijollet, Élia (Author)
Other Authors: Chevrier, Jean-François (Interviewer), Herzog, Jacques (Interviewer), Meuron, Pierre de, 1950- (Interviewer), Schelbert, Catherine (Translator), Fox, Jonathan (Translator), Wallerstein, Katharine (Translator), Dupin, George, 1966- (Photographer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I. Local/Global
  • 1. The Firm
  • 2. Orientations
  • 3. Commissions and Skill: The Social Question
  • 4. Vernacular Invention
  • 5. The Cube
  • 6. The Image of the Body
  • 7. Territorial Intimacy and a Scale of Mobility
  • 8. Ornament(s)
  • 9. Nature as a Model of Complexity
  • II. The making of an urban Biography
  • III. Conversation.