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Giovannini, Joseph

Diskin, Steve

Architecture

wiley

Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to make it move or make sound, and he began using more sophisticated materials for outdoor works. By the time of Expo '70 in Osaka, Shingu had been commissioned to create a piece for the plaza. It contained many of the elements he would use later: parts of it were moved by both wind and water, in some ways harnessing their power but also buffeted by it. His work walks the fine line between complementing nature and being an integral part of it. The pieces, though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt nature's rhythms in their movement.Shingu's sculpture is found around the world, from Japan to France, Italy, and the United States. In addition to creating sculptures, he has written and illustrated several children's books and designed several theater pieces that integrate his sculptures and installations with dramatic stories. All of these endeavors are collected here — along with the artist's comments on many of the sculptures, essays by Pierre Restany and Renzo Piano, and an interview with Joseph Giovannini — in a monograph that provides a complete portrait of Shingu's diverse career.

Shingu: Message from Nature

Restany, Pierre

Piano. Renzo

Shingu, Susumu

Individual Artists

Abbeville Press

One of an emerging group of important young architects from Southern California, Steven Ehrlich explores the vitality of vernacular forms and spaces, the richness of texture and materials, and the generosity of spatial arrangements. Having studied and worked in Africa and Asia, Ehrlich fuses an anthropologist's understanding of culture with the principles of classical modern architecture. The result is a subtle reinterpretation of classical modernism that is socially responsive. In addition to residential projects, Ehrlich has designed artists' studios, film and animation production studios, libraries, a municipal gymnasium, and a wide variety of civic and commercial structures. The work of Steven Ehrlich Architects is distinctly modern, yet informed by the simplicity and directness of vernacular forms and a vigorous sensitivity to the urban conditions of the "Pacific Century." Their designs represent the intersection of cultural influences as diverse as traditional African mud construction, the ancient Chinese discipline of feng shui, and California's Latino community. This monograph features twenty-eight projects and two essays, illustrated with photographs, plans, and Ehrlich's dynamic sketches. Among the projects included in this volume are the DreamWorks SKG Animation Studios in Glendale, California; the orange Coast College Art Center in Costa Mesa; the Sony Music West Coast headquarters in Santa Monica; the Biblioteca Latinamericana and Washington Area Youth Center in San Jose; the Shatto Recreation Center in Los Angeles; the Ahmadu Bello University Theater in Zaria, Nigeria; and the Taichung Civic Center in Taichung, Taiwan.

Steven Ehrlich, Architects

Ehrlich, Steven

Rizzoli

A comprehensive volume on the instant architectural masterpiece located in Rome.

MAXXI: Zaha Hadid Architects: Museum of XXI Century Arts

Zaha Hadid Architects

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Skira/Rizzoli

Product Description 
Examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of “disruptors” such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. With an irregular format designed by celebrated graphic designer Abbott Miller of Pentagram. \nIn 
Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini proposes that our current architectural landscape ultimately emerged from transgressive and progressive art movements that had roiled Europe before and after World War I. By the 1960s, social unrest and cultural disruption opened the way for investigations into an inventive, antiauthoritarian architecture. Explorations emerged in the 1970s, and built projects surfaced in the 1980s, taking digital form in the 1990s, with large-scale projects finally landing on the far side of the millennium.\nArchitecture Unbound traces all of these developments and influences, presenting an authoritative and illuminating history not only of the sources of contemporary currents in architecture but also of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the twenty-first-century digital revolution in form-making, and profiling the most influential practitioners and their most notable projects, including Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall, Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House, Daniel Libeskind’s master plan for the World Trade Center, Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV Tower, and Herzog and de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing. 
 Review 
"Joseph Giovannini examines 20th-century trends decade by decade and analyzes the work of Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog and de Meuron, and other leading architects to argue that progressive European art movements around World War I led to the styles of today’s buildings. Giovannini’s critical eye also considers the 21st-century digital revolution in architectural form-making in this expansive book." —ALTA MAGAZINE\n"In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini takes us to architecture's wilder shores as he traces a century of the avant-garde to transgressive and progressive art movements that roiled Europe before and after World War I, and to the social unrest and cultural disruption of the 1960s…Architecture Unbound tracks complex historical developments and conceptual influences across the century, presenting an authoritative and illuminating history of the twentieth-century avant-garde and its evolution into digital form-making in the twenty-first century." —AMAZING ARCHITECTURE 
 About the Author 
Joseph Giovannini is a practicing architect who has written on architecture and design for three decades for such publications as the 
New York Times, 
Architectural Record, 
Art in America, and 
Art Forum, and he has served as the architecture critic for 
New York 
magazine and the 
Los Angeles Herald Examiner.

Architecture Unbound: A Century of the Disruptive Avant-Garde

This generously illustrated book assesses the architectural vision of Wallace Cunningham, the innovative and intuitive Southern California architect whose buildings reveal light and embody motion and spirituality. From small mountain cabins to urban townhouses, from waterfront residences to museums, Cunningham’s structures respond poetically and functionally to the landand to the cityscapes in which they are set. His works reflect the architect’s belief that buildings are not just visualbuildings need to radiate emotion.” The book traces Cunningham’s development from his youth in the architecturally rich city of Buffalo through his apprenticeship at Taliesen, where he absorbed Frank Lloyd Wright’s theory of organic architecture, to his current practice in San Diego. Eighteen case studies of his projects, both built and unbuilt, illustrate how the architect opens his structures to sky, landscape, and views, and how he uses light to define and animate space. The book also includes a comprehensive record of Cunningham's works, publications, and exhibits.

Materializing the Immaterial: The Architecture of Wallace Cunningham

Yale University Press

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Taragin, Davira S.

Cooke, Edward S., Jr.

Hudson Hills Pr

Wildwood, New Jersey: thanks to a combination of economics, geography, and chance, this Jersey Shore vacation spot has, for more than four decades, been home to a wealth of immaculately preserved midcentury motels. These jewels of neon and bright colors remained frozen in time until recently; now, a substantial number have been demolished and many that remain face an uncertain future. Determined to preserve them, photographer Mark Havens has captured their unique style over 10 years, sometimes shooting motel facades while workers were demolishing the backs. With essays by Joseph Giovannini and Jamer Hunt and evocative photographs, Out of Season celebrates the architecture of a bygone era of Jersey Shore summers.

Out of Season: The Vanishing Architecture of the Wildwoods

Hunt, Jamer

Havens, Mark

History & Criticism

Booth-Clibborn Editions

Over twenty-five years, the arc of Steven Ehrlich's career has afforded him a steady flow of projects for testing ideas with which he has constructed his own distinct architectural identity. Steven Ehrlich Architects is a California-basedpractice whose designs extend the traditions of architectural innovation and the fusion of technology with cultural and environmental sensitivity. What makes Ehrlich unique among his peers is the influence of his early career years spent in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa. This book is a meticulous exploration of the four major elements of Ehrlich's mulitcultural modernism. The courtyard, as an antidote to density stress, is examined and illustrated by both residental and community projects; further projects examine an openess to change and technical innovation as embodied by Los Angeles. Introduction by Joseph Giovanni

Steven Ehrlich: Multi-Cultural Modernism

Images Publishing Dist Ac

Architect Mehrdad Yazdani has won the respect of critics and clients alike for his imaginative approach to the design of public and institutional buildings. Mehrdad Yazdani, the first monograph of his work, presents a collection of 25 projects, large and small, built and unbuilt, illustrating Yazdani's responsiveness to issues of public engagement, program complexity, and site context. The author, architect and critic Joseph Giovannini, emphasizes the role that drawing and painting have played in guiding and inspiring this Iranian-born and Texas-educated architect.

Mehrdad Yazdani

Princeton Architectural Press

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