Revolving Architecture

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568986814
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 208 pages
18,3 x 21 cm
colour/black & white
July 2008
€26,60 (excl. VAT)

Revolving Architecture

A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot

Chad Randl

Alternately lauded as the future of architecture or dismissed as pure folly, revolving buildings are a fascinating missing chapter in architectural history with surprising relevance to issues in contemporary architectural design.

Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a warden’s constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants, tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.