Kleine Bauten = Petite architecture Jodidio, Philip creator Maass, Johann Christoph 1973- translator. Débard, Claire translator. text gw Cologne Taschen 2014 monographic eng

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416 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 29 cm. Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be in diminutive in their dimensions, but which are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages, and push their designers to do more with less. A dollhouse for Calvin Klein in New York, a playhouse for children in Trondheim, pop-up stores for fashion stars, vacation cabins, or housing for victims of natural disasters are all part of the new rush to develop the great small architecture of the moment. The 2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito is here, but so are emergent architects from Portugal, Chile, England, and New Zealand. Alvaro Siza and Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) display their eye for tiny detail alongside artists Doug Aitken and Olafur Eliasson. Philip Jodidio ; German translation, Johann Christoph Maass ; French translation, Claire Debard. Includes index. ARC Text in English, German and French. Small buildings Architecture, Modern 21st century ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-) Architecture NA4160 .J63 2014 724.7 9783836546690 3836546698 2015472206 Ayesha Abed Library AU@ 180913 20230525140946.0 33762 eng