X y Z: The Architecture of Dagmar Richter - Softcover

Richter, Dagmar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568982488 ISBN 13: 9781568982489

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001

Synopsis

Dagmar Richter is one of the few architects working today who seek to radically reinvent urban design. Her work explores new solutions to architecture and planning by giving voice to elements deemed inappropriate or undesirable--traces of a site's history, contemporary photographs or drawings, and texts or spoken words. Richter's work on re-skinning the city proposes that the act of designing is an act of editing, appropriating, and layering. Her work, characterized by an absolute intensity of technical skill, addresses contemporary issues of authorship, precedence, site, and memory. XYZ: The Architecture of Dagmar Richter catalogs over 10 years of Dagmar Richter's design practice. This book combines a descriptive, hyper-linked text arrangement with drawings, models, and computer renderings of over 15 competition entries, urban design proposals, and built projects.

About this title

Synopsis

This work catalogues over 10 years of architect Ricter Dagmar's design practice. It combines a descriptive, "hyper-linked" text arrangement with drawings, models, and computer renderings of over 15 competition entries, urban design proposals, and built projects.

About the Author

Dagmar Richter, an architect with offices in both Berlin and Santa Monica, is a professor of architecture at UCLA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568982488
• ISBN 13: 9781568982489
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182