Details in Contemporary Architecture

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568985763
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 208 pages
22,9 x 30,5 cm
colour/black & white
April 2007
€49,50 (excl. VAT)

Details in Contemporary Architecture

Christine Killory, René Davids

Series: AsBuilt

By examining some of the best work of the past two years, Details in Contemporary Architecture demonstrates how complicated design problems have been handled by architects to achieve beautiful, functional, innovative, sustainable and, where necessary, economical results.

Including work by David Chipperfield, Herzog and de Meuron, Morphosis, ShoP, and many other well-known firms. The authors explore the common as well as more exotic architectural detailing (screens and walls, doors and windows, roofs, bridges and stairs) that so often gets lost in the pages and photographs of the design media.

Details in Contemporary Architecture is the first volume of a new series entitled AsBuilt. AsBuilt features details from a representative range of building types and materials of recent built work in America. The series seeks to ground both practice and theory more deeply while fostering a better understanding of the relationships between architectural form and technology.