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Cool Construction / Raymund Ryan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Thames & Hudson, c2001.Description: 128 p. : chiefly col. illISBN:
  • 0500282676
Review: "Cool Construction examines four architects in whose work the tactility of craftsmanship and the luminosity of understatement are combined and refined to an unprecedented degree." "Although the architects - David Chipperfield (London), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisbon) and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (New York) - are based in very different cultures, their architecture exhibits a rare vision of purity and serenity that is independent of time and place. From Chipperfield's sensitive reinterpretations of historical forms to the exquisite restraint in Kishi's breathtaking work, and from Souto de Moura's robust but elemental use of the vernacular to Williams and Tsien's planar experimentation, each finds maximum expression through the ingenious use of materials and the rigorous manipulation of form." "Against the excesses of postmoderism and reimaging the spirit of modernism, cool construction is an architecture that is finely honed and carefully wrought, sublime and resonant."--BOOK JACKET.
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Open Collection Open Collection FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Open Collection FCUC Library 724.6 RYA 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00012739
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724.6 PEV 1968 The sources of modern architecture and design / 724.6 POW 1999 The power of contemporary architecture / 724.6 RAS 2002 Flux : 724.6 RYA 2001 Cool Construction / 724.6 SAV 1996 Less is more : 724.6 SHA 2002 Twentieth century architecture : 724.6 SIL 2013 Structural engineering for architects :

On cover: David Chipperfield, Waro Kishi, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Tod Williams Billie Tsien.

"Cool Construction examines four architects in whose work the tactility of craftsmanship and the luminosity of understatement are combined and refined to an unprecedented degree." "Although the architects - David Chipperfield (London), Waro Kishi (Kyoto), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Lisbon) and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien (New York) - are based in very different cultures, their architecture exhibits a rare vision of purity and serenity that is independent of time and place. From Chipperfield's sensitive reinterpretations of historical forms to the exquisite restraint in Kishi's breathtaking work, and from Souto de Moura's robust but elemental use of the vernacular to Williams and Tsien's planar experimentation, each finds maximum expression through the ingenious use of materials and the rigorous manipulation of form." "Against the excesses of postmoderism and reimaging the spirit of modernism, cool construction is an architecture that is finely honed and carefully wrought, sublime and resonant."--BOOK JACKET.

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