Beautiful Moves: Designing Stadia - Hardcover

Benjamin Flowers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848222246 ISBN 13: 9781848222243

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer, once pleaded for `a pretty move for the love of God' when watching his beloved soccer. This book is likewise interested in `beautiful moves', but turns instead to the architecture of the stadium as an architectural type as captivating as the play occurring on the pitch. In the past 30 years a number of stadium projects have been completed that highlight how this building type has become a site for architectural innovation and complexity. Clients that once would once have turned to large firms specializing in stadia instead began to hire A-list and Pritzker-Prize-winning architects to design new stadia. As a result, in cities around the world stadia are often the most expensive and monumental of projects, and may be icons of identity and defining presences in the built landscape. By examining a range of exemplary stadia from around the world (built, unbuilt and demolished projects), this book presents for the first time a canon for this building type. Organized chronologically, it includes famous examples from the likes of Lina Bo Bardi, Frei Otto, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Studio Gang.

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About the Author

Benjamin Flowers is an Associate Professor in Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (2014), Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century (2009), and most recently, Sport and Architecture (2016). He is the director of Stadia Lab.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848222246
• ISBN 13: 9781848222243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192