High Tech Architecture (eBook)

A Style Reconsidered

Angus MacDonald (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Crowood (Verlag)
9781785006463 (ISBN)

Infos

High Tech - sometimes known as Structural Expressionism - 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 by architectural critics, as an architecture appropriate for the built environment of the future.

Autor

Angus J Macdonald is Professor Emeritus of Architectural Structures in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a former Head of the Department of Architecture, both at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include architectural structures, architectural history and cultural landscape. He is the author or co-author of eleven books on these subjects, including the acclaimed Structure and Architecture, now in its third edition and available in seven languages and as an e-book; Structural Design for Architecture, an overview of structural design in relation to architecture; and a professional biography of the High tech structural engineer Anthony Hunt, in the series, of which he was the joint originator, The Engineer's Contribution to Contemporary Architecture, published by Thomas Telford Ltd (The Institution of Civil Engineers, UK).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2019
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Anthony Hunt • Beaubourg • Centre Nationale d'Art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou • Centre Pompidou • Claude R. Engle • Creek Vean house • Faber and Dumas building • Foster Associates • Future Systems • George Sexton • Georgie Wolton • gerberette brackets • Glass • Happold • Herman Miller factory • High Tech Architecture • Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation building • Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation headquarters • IBM Headquarters • INMOS factory • Jan Kaplicky • Late Modernism • Late Modernist Architecture • Lloyd’s building • Lloyd's Insurance headquarters • Michael Hopkins • Millennium Footbridge • modernism • modernist architecture • Murray Mews houses • NEO Bankside development • Newport School • Nicolas Grimshaw • Norman Foster • Oxford Ice Rink • Palmerston School • Patty Hopkins • Peter Rice • Reliance Controls factory • Renault Distribution Centre • Renzo Piano • Richard Buckminster Fuller • Richard Rogers • Richard Rogers Partnership • Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts • Sainsbury’s Centre • Schulitz House • steel • Structural Expressionism • Su Brumwell • Team 4 • Wendy Foster • willis • Yacht House • zip-up house
• ISBN-13: 9781785006463 / 9781785006463