Architectural Thought : The Design Process and and the Expectant Eye
face each other in startling clarity on adjacent sites in Berlin: Mies van der Rohe’s National Gallery on one side of the road, ...
and its more recent expression, neo-classicism as exemplified by the public buildings of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, for example. T ...
of columns and internally in the stair and handrails, and most of all in the magnificent luminous entrance hall that echoes the ...
43 Above Colin StJ.Wilson & Partners, British Library, London1997; entrance court with St. Pancras Hotel & Station in th ...
unexpected non-urban quality, partly to its absence of monu- mentality. Our expectant eye was frustrated by what we saw: the exp ...
This detailed and extended selection procedure makes it all the more surprising that at a certain stage the Trustees asked Meier ...
Each one is appropriate and each one evokes a particular model. The model which, however, is most in evidence is Meier’s own pre ...
opened in 1819. Two historically and geographically separated but admired models were the beginning and then much amend- ed. As ...
major conversion by Ignazio Gardella, Giovanni Michelucci, Carlo Scarpa and Guido Morozzi in 1956. What made the circu- lation s ...
acknowledge. Very often we reject or even refuse to consider solutions because they have unfavourable connotations. White colour ...
buildings; it carried an unacceptable visual overload. A rougher surface would cast shadows and create a more three-dimen- siona ...
‘Those familiar with contemporary architecture will no doubt concur that my approach is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. ...
Right Alvar Aalto, glass ‘Savoy’ vase 1936 with the vase might with some justification decide that it is a design by Frank Gehry ...
on the list meant that there was some predisposition towards a fluid non-rectangular architecture, in fact, some expectancy. Coo ...
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‘I have been searching for a personal vocabulary. This search has been far ranging, from childlike exploration of my fantasies – ...
‘The manipulation of the inside of the container is for me an independent, sculptural problem and no less inter- esting than the ...
In my work the perception of the object is primary. The imagery is real and not abstract, using distortion and juxtaposition of ...
always very consciously to rummage around for an appropriate model. We have an expectant eye that sifts and selects and is influ ...
‘Gehry’s office wryly notes that Bilbao was built without any tape measures. During fabrication, each structural component was b ...
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