Bartlett 21st Century Architecture communicates a new message about the importance of inventive and well-designed architecture and its relevance to the wider public. Highly visual, it is predominately image based. The full-colour images include: hand-drawn sections, developmental sketch books, computer-generated artefacts and landscapes, large-scale paper-made models, technical explorations, diagrammatic drawings, models in light and flux, narrative as image and exhibited projects. In addtion drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations are also featured. Reoccurring text boxes describe the projects and features, such as where are they now? provides biographies of ex-students. The book is organised by theme, each section being allocated to different author/editors, overseen by the main editors: Narrative and Allegory (eds. Prof. Jonathan Hill, Prof. Jane Rendell) Landscape, Ephemera and Sensitivity (ed. Laura Allen) Phenomenology, Process and Building (eds. Prof. Christine Hawley,Prof. Colin Fournier) Urbanity (eds. Prof. Iain Borden, Nic Clear) Interaction and Performance (ed. Prof. Stephen Gage) Making, Fabrication and Methodology(ed. Bob Sheil) Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research (ed.Prof. Neil Spiller) Cultural Architectures and Devices (ed. Prof. CJ Lim)
- ISBN: 978-0-470-77279-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 12/06/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés