High Tech Architecture

High Tech Architecture
Title High Tech Architecture PDF eBook
Author Angus J Macdonald
Publisher The Crowood Press
Pages 425
Release 2019-11-08
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1785006460

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High Tech - sometimes known as Structural Expression - is a style of Modern architecture that produced some of the most prominent and visually exciting buildings of the twentieth century. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters in Hong Kong, the Lloyd's of London headquarters in London, UK, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. Extensively illustrated with photographs and diagrams, and accessibly written, High Tech Architecture - A style reconsidered discusses the intended meanings of the visual vocabulary involved in High Tech, and places the style in the broad context of other Modern architecture of the twentieth century. The book offers a balanced re-appraisal of the extravagant claims that have been made for High Tech, by its progenitors and architectural critics, as an architecture appropriate for the built environment of the future.

High Tech Architecture

High Tech Architecture
Title High Tech Architecture PDF eBook
Author Colin Davies
Publisher Rizzoli International Publications
Pages 168
Release 1988
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech
Title Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech PDF eBook
Author Todd Gannon
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 262
Release 2017-09-05
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1606065300

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Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early engagement with the New Brutalism of Alison and Peter Smithson, his measured enthusiasm for the “clip-on” approach developed by Cedric Price and the Archigram group, his advocacy of “well-tempered environments” fostered by integrated mechanical and electrical systems, and his late-career assessments of High Tech practitioners such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano. Gannon devotes significant attention to Banham’s late work, including fresh archival materials related to Making Architecture: The Paradoxes of High Tech, the manuscript he left unfinished at his death in 1988. For the first time, readers will have access to Banham’s previously unpublished draft introduction to that book.

Pioneering British High-tech

Pioneering British High-tech
Title Pioneering British High-tech PDF eBook
Author John McKean
Publisher Phaidon Incorporated Limited
Pages 180
Release 1999
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780714838809

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Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, thisext considers the Engineering Department Building at Leicester University,he Willis Faber Dumas Building and the Lloyd's Building. It includespecially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings wereetailed and put together. By looking at the buildings together, the readeran analyze and chart the development of modern British architecture andxamine the distinctive approaches taken by three different partnerships.

Eco-tech

Eco-tech
Title Eco-tech PDF eBook
Author Catherine Slessor
Publisher W. W. Norton
Pages 192
Release 2001-01-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780500283066

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The high-tech architecture movement embodied by seminal buildings such as Paris's Centre Pompidou (1977) and London's Lloyd's Building (1986) has undergone a subtle but palpable transformation. While daring feats of structural engineering still mark recent projects by the architects who forged the earliest examples, a new generation has expanded the vocabulary of this architectonic language, and evolved an architecture with different aims. The most significant of these objectives is to create a sustainable architecture. This international survey presents projects completed in the 1990s that use high-tech forms and materials for environmentally intelligent means. It brings together innovative approaches by established practitioners -- Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Michael Hopkins -- with a new generation -- Thomas Herzog, Von Gerkan Marg, Design Antenna, and Itsuko Hasegawa. The introduction charts the evolution of high-tech architecture and its progression toward more ecological concerns, and the movement as a whole is considered in a broader architectural context. At the book's heart is a selection of forty of the world's most sophisticated projects, each with a thorough description of its unique architectural and technological features, as well as extensive plans, drawings, and sketches. A complete reference section includes architect biographies and technical details of each project. Accompanying the texts and drawings are spectacular photographs, most of which were specially commissioned for this publication.

Last Futures

Last Futures
Title Last Futures PDF eBook
Author Douglas Murphy
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 298
Release 2016-01-12
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1781689806

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In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation of thinkers, designers and engineers who hoped to build a better future, influenced by visions of geodesic domes, walking cities, and a meaningful connection with nature. In this brilliant work of cultural history, architect Douglas Murphy traces the lost archeology of the present-day through the works of thinkers and designers such as Buckminster Fuller, the ecological pioneer Stewart Brand, the Archigram architects who envisioned the Plug-In City in the '60s, as well as co-operatives in Vienna, communes in the Californian desert, and protesters on the streets of Paris. In this mind-bending account of the last avant garde, we see not just the source of our current problems but also some powerful alternative futures.

High-tech

High-tech
Title High-tech PDF eBook
Author Joan Kron
Publisher Clarkson Potter Publishers
Pages 308
Release 1978
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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