Hariri and Hariri: Essays (Work in Progress S.) - Softcover

Hariri, Gisue; Hariri, Mojgan; Frampton, Kenneth

 
9781885254122: Hariri and Hariri: Essays (Work in Progress S.)

Synopsis

One of a series that presents the work of the "new" and "next" generation of architects, in this case Gisue and Majgan Hariri. Several themes create the separate sections of the book, including related projects and discussions of the cultural context. Hariri and Hariri have organized 25 projects around the following themes: politics and power, developing global culture, new technology and the age of liguid information, gender and identity, composition, construction and materiality, spirituality, hybridization and multi-functionality, drawing and methodology. The themes will create the separate sections of the book, and will include the related projects, with project descriptions, extended discussions by the Hariris of the cultural context and significance of the work, drawing upon influences, both current and historical, in architecture, art, history, theory, philosophy and other discourses.

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Synopsis

One of a series that presents the work of the "new" and "next" generation of architects, in this case Gisue and Majgan Hariri. Several themes create the separate sections of the book, including related projects and discussions of the cultural context. Hariri and Hariri have organized 25 projects around the following themes: politics and power, developing global culture, new technology and the age of liguid information, gender and identity, composition, construction and materiality, spirituality, hybridization and multi-functionality, drawing and methodology. The themes will create the separate sections of the book, and will include the related projects, with project descriptions, extended discussions by the Hariris of the cultural context and significance of the work, drawing upon influences, both current and historical, in architecture, art, history, theory, philosophy and other discourses.

About the Author

Kenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and the author of the seminal Modern Architecture: A Critical History.

Architect Steven Holl has won many important competitions, has been widely published in books and magazines, and has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

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ISBN 10:  158093062X ISBN 13:  9781580930628
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, 2000
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