"Future Systems' steht f++r innovativen, technikinspirierten Umgang mit Architektur und Design: das Team - gef++hrt von Jan Kaplicky und Amanda Levete - machte zun+chst mit ebenso radikalen wie poetischen Entw++rfen Furore, ehe ihm mit dem zweitplazierten Projekt f++r die franz+sische Nationalbibliothek in Paris der internationale Durchbruch gelang. Inzwischen geh+rt "Future Systems' zu den wichtigsten Architekturb++ros Gro+britanniens, das zahlreiche Projekte wie etwa das "Earth Center' in Doncaster (eines der gr++ten Millenniumsprojekte Gro+britanniens) oder das Medienzentrum "Lord's Cricket Ground' realisiert, ohne die kompromisslose Innovationskraft einzub+++en. Marcus Field untersucht in dieser umfassenden Monographie die stete Entwicklung von "Future Systems', eines der inspirierendsten B++ros der gegenw+rtigen Architekturszene. Das Buch zeigt rund 30 aktuelle Projekte, darunter 8 realisierte Bauten, Produkt- und M+belentw++rfe, sowie alle Projekte aus den Jahren 1958-1992.

Future Systems

Arts & Photography

Field, Marcus

Architecture

Phaidon Press

Monograph, manifesto, travelog, history, autobiography, novel--A Guide to Ecstacity is a bit of all of these things. The brainchild of British architectural visionary Nigel Coates, it asks us to reimagine the city as a dynamic hybrid of inventive design and cross-cultural political empowerment. Produced in the spirit of Rem Koolhaas's S,M,L,XL, it is a palimpsest of the real and the hypothetical, with fragments of seven cities from around the world--Cairo, London, Mumbai, New York, Rio, Rome, and Tokyo--woven together into one multifaceted urban fabric. In addition to extensive documentation of architecture and product design by Coates's own groundbreaking firm--Branson Coates Architecture--A Guide to Ecstacity features projects by Norman Foster, Future Systems, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Philippe Starck, and Bernard Tschumi. Presented in a remarkable package created by the design firm Why Not Associates in close collaboration with Coates, these varied works form a fascinating kaleidoscope of metropolitan culture and suggest how the city of tomorrow might be transformed by a proactive architectural community that embraces the challenge of designing for a multicultural world.

A Guide to Ecstacity

Coates, Nigel

Princeton Architectural Press

Lofts

Laurence King Publishing

Establishing domestic spaces in buildings originally constructed for industrial use, the loft phenomenon, has become one of the most significant cultural movements of the late-20th century. Featuring the juxtaposition of contemporary living with the remnants of a building's original shell, even the most simple loft should have the dramatism often lacking in all but the best examples of contemporary design. Written by two young architectural critics and designed by a forward-looking graphics team, this book tells, with the aid of colour photographs, plans and drawings, the story of some of the world's most exciting and challenging loft conversions. Around 30 architect-designed lofts are featured, showing how designers have overcome specific problems generic to lofts.

Irving, Mark

Gingko Pr Inc

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